@javierg 99% of the time I've scrolled through a man page to find an obscure command line option, which then disappears when I press `q` to exit less, so I can no longer refer to the documentation. That's why I think it was a mistake to not make `-X` the default.
@th @javierg this is my exact beef as well. it was clearly developed by people who had access to two VT100s side-by-side