When I have just opened The Bat! and it is still downloading backed up messages, I see this very irritating behaviour; if I select one message to read, either in the preview pane or in a separate standalone pane, then when the list of messages is updated as new ones are added (or more problematically, inserted), the selection (highlight) effectively moves to another message and so I don't get to read the one I selected.

I would think this is because the list is stored internally as an indexed list, and as new messages are added and the list is re-sorted to accommodate them, the index numbers will keep changing to reflect each transient state of the list. I can see that it would be hard work to track the selection, particularly if the selection is based on the list's item index.

I think this issue is down to dynamic re-sorting of the list, but I am wondering if there is a sort mode (or a non-sorting mode) that allows the initial order to be maintained such that the index doesn't change.

Does anyone else see this? Does anyone else have a workaround for this?