I'm running Raspbian and everything seems to be running smoothly. When I run a man page, I can scroll up and down to read it. When I run a command, such as 'command --help | less' or 'command -h | less', it prints everything and then reaches the end. If I hit 'q', I can quit, but otherwise, I can't scroll back up to see what I missed. Page Up/Down don't work, nothing, I've never had this kind of problem with more/less before. When I try to hit another key, it just prints out a single column of tildes on the left side, kind of like I'm in vim suddenly. Maybe that'll help?
Any ideas? It's just an annoyance, and I know I can look these things up on the internet, but if I take my Pi out into the field and don't have that luxury then I'm stuck. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this; I didn't think that a linux place was correct since I've never had this happen before on any other version of linux. A google search on this is impossible given the words "less" and "more"...