More standard pager keybinds for review pager in CLI

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Feature request for product/service

Cursor CLI

Describe the request

The pager in the Ctrl + R “review” feature of the CLI is pretty limited.
It would be nice if it had more standard keybindings for navigation features.

I think it is find to use more keybinds as long as you are not focused on the feedback input box at the bottom of the reveiw pane.
In particular, I was just wanting /,n,N for jumping to a word.

Here’s a table of some standard keybinds for pagers from GPT5.2.

Below is a cross-pager cheat sheet for common actions and their default keybinds in less, more (POSIX-ish / “classic”; GNU/BSD add extras), pg, and most. man typically uses less as its pager, so it inherits less keys (unless MANPAGER/PAGER is set differently).

Notation: ^X = Ctrl+X. “—” = not standard / not commonly available.

Navigation (scrolling)

Action less more pg most
Forward 1 line j / ^N / Enter / Down Enter / Down Enter / Down j / Down / Enter
Backward 1 line k / ^P / Up (often not) Up may work in some Up k / Up
Forward 1 page Space / f / ^F / PgDn Space / f Space / ^F Space / PgDn
Backward 1 page b / ^B / PgUp b / ^B (GNU/BSD; not in very old more) b / ^B b / PgUp
Forward 1/2 page d / ^D — — (often) d
Backward 1/2 page u / ^U — — (often) u
Forward N lines N + (j or Enter) N + Enter N + Enter N + j
Backward N lines N + k — N + Up N + k

Notes:

  • Arrow keys often work in less/most; more depends on implementation and terminal.

Jumping / positioning

Action less more pg most
Go to beginning g or 1g — (some have g) 1 then g (varies) g
Go to end G G (GNU/BSD more) G G
Go to line N Ng (e.g. 123g) — (varies; some support N then g) (often) Ng
Go to N% N% — — —
Jump to next file (multi-file) :n :n (if supported) :n (varies) :n (varies)
Jump to previous file :p :p (if supported) :p (varies) :p (varies)

Search

Action less more pg most
Search forward /pattern /pattern /pattern /pattern
Search backward ?pattern (often no; GNU more may have it) ?pattern ?pattern
Repeat last search (same direction) n n n n
Repeat last search (opposite direction) N (often no) (varies) N

Marks / returning to a spot

Action less more pg most
Set mark m<letter> — — (often) m<letter>
Jump to mark '<letter> — — (often) '<letter>
Jump back (history) '' (two quotes) or ^O (varies) — — (varies)

Display / misc

Action less more pg most
Help h / H h (GNU/BSD) h (varies) h
Quit q q q q
Redraw screen ^L / r ^L ^L ^L / r
Follow (like tail -f) F — — (some builds) F
Toggle line wrapping -S (chop long lines; option) — — (varies/options)
Horizontal scroll Left/Right arrows (if enabled), ESC-( / ESC-) (less) — — (often) Left/Right

Important caveats

  • more varies a lot across systems (classic/POSIX vs GNU vs BSD “more”). Backward movement and some extras are not universally present.
  • pg and most also vary by version/build; the table reflects the most commonly documented defaults.
  • man: on most Linux systems man uses less -s (or similar) by default, so use the less column unless you’ve changed MANPAGER/PAGER.

If you tell me which OS/distro (e.g., GNU/Linux, macOS, BusyBox) and which pagers you care about, I can tighten this to exact bindings for those specific implementations/versions.