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Da Witch <heather710101@yahoo.com> writes:

> Many of the commands to move around a buffer viewed with less are the 
> same as vi commands.  It would be nice to have a less-like pager that
> felt like Emacs.  Is there such a thing?

less(1) provides a mechanism for redefining the key maps.
I wouldn't be surprised if somebody had done one for emacs
style commands.

> (Of course, one *could* just use Emacs as a pager, but Emacs takes too
> long to load up to be convenient.)

emacsclient (or gnuclient) would solve that problem.