On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:38 PM, <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015, at 00:20, Doug McIlroy wrote:
The console screen doesn't, and the one in an emulator can't be
controlled by the pager. The real question is why a pager should be
executed at all in an xterm. Except xterm has no ability to search in
scrollback, and its buffer may not be large enough for some very large
manpages.

srsly, this is why we have tmux.  or even good old screen, in a pinch.