There -R to quit if the file is less than the screen size. There's also most as an alternative pager, and also glow (of course which, my fork of it is better) to render md files in the terminal.

The tip that I've been using quite a lot lately by debugging long log files is using `&` to filter what I want to read and `&!` to filter-out what's not useful (and they support regexes).

Admittedly, they are a bit slow sometime and sure, you could use `grep -v` then pipe which is way faster, but they've saved me on removing noise from logfiles from time to time when you don't always know what to filter beforehand :).

EDIT: It was in TFA.

Also -X or --no-init

" ...d sirable if the deinitialization string does something unnecessary, like clearing the screen."

I prefer to not clear the screen. I usually want to continue to refer to something or even copy/paste from the content to my current command line.