My word you're all useless lol (no offense), I'm a VIM user and I know this.
If you want to read a manual page in emacs, use M-x man and it will prompt you for the name of the man page. It will then open a window with the manual page all nicely formatted for you. If you use emacs a lot, avoid leaving it for crap like manual pages.
If you really want to pipe it *into* emacs without running it through emacs, you will need an external program to simulate the effect of `man ls > tmp-file && emacs tmp-file && rm tmp-file`, because emacs is not really a UNIX program and like the original vi, not entirely friendly to being piped a file on stdin. You can find solutions on emacs wiki or Google.
less generally presents a vi style interface for navigation, or at least it responds to my muscle memory. So if someone is asking to use emacs, probably not going to want /wtf searches. Sometimes I even use vim just for a better known target. I don't know how man -P emacs works on OpenBSD but my Linux work station doesn't work with it either.
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
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