Also, the default action of the cursor keys is more useful for paging in less than in view. In view, cursor keys move the cursor; in less, they scroll the scree

Also, the default action of the cursor keys is more useful for paging in less than in view. In view, cursor keys move the cursor; in less, they scroll the screen. And less has built-in tailing which you can start and stop at any time. That's its killer feature for me. On the other hand, vim/view can have some nice syntax highlighting for syslog format log files. I haven't found that enough to switch though.