“less” the unix command, that is. The default behavior for less isn’t quite as good as it could be. I use a case insensitive search (actually ‘smartcase’) in vim, but less is case sensitive by default. You can pass -i on the command line or once less is started to get smartcase-like behavior in searches. Or you can put that in the $LESS variable in your .zshenv. My .zshenv has the following:
export LESS='-R -i --quit-if-one-screen'
From the less(1) manpage:
-F or --quit-if-one-screen
Causes less to automatically exit if the entire file can be dis-
played on the first screen.
...
-i or --ignore-case
Causes searches to ignore case; that is, uppercase and lowercase
are considered identical. This option is ignored if any uppercase
letters appear in the search pattern; in other words, if a pattern
contains uppercase letters, then that search does not ignore case.
...
-R or --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS
Like -r, but tries to keep track of the screen appearance where
possible. This works only if the input consists of normal text and
possibly some ANSI "color" escape sequences, which are sequences of
the form:
ESC [ ... m
where the "..." is zero or more characters other than "m". For the
purpose of keeping track of screen appearance, all control charac-
ters and all ANSI color escape sequences are assumed to not move
the cursor. You can make less think that characters other than "m"
can end ANSI color escape sequences by setting the environment
variable LESSANSIENDCHARS to the list of characters which can end a
color escape sequence.
The other two options are primarily git related. The -R option is so that the wonderful colored output from various git commands gets displayed properly. The --quit-if-one-screen option prevents bits of short output from commands like git log -1 from interrupting the normal flow of work. On some terminals you might need to pass -X in order to prevent the --quit-if-one-screen and the terminal’s alternate screen from hiding any output that takes up less than one screen.
Also, to echo my friend Andrew, never use “more”, there’s absolutely no point on any system where “less” is available. Seriously, just don’t do it.