If you use Emacs for more than editing text, there are many daily occasions to use Emacs as a pager. Here’s my list: Read-only files (with view-mode) Scrolling through emails (notmuch) RSS feed entries (elfeed) Reading ebooks (nov.el) Web browsing (eww) Man pages (man or woman) Help buffers and Info documents Git logs (magit or vc) System logs, compilation and debug output This list was about half as long ten years ago, it keeps growing!