I've found the pager search function useful in some cases when navigating man pages. At least in less, '/' does forward search, and '?' does backward search. N

I've found the pager search function useful in some cases when navigating man pages. At least in less, '/' does forward search, and '?' does backward search. Navigating longer man pages does seem to be somewhat clumsy, though, and finding things in something massive such as the gcc man page takes work. I'm probably just used to it enough that I don't always even realize it.