Mail.app message selection gets reset when clearing the search box If I search for something in my mailbox, select the message I'm interested in, then clear the search box (because I want to see the other messages that came in around the same time), the selection resets and I lose my selected message.

I thought there was once some option like "View message in mailbox" that could be used to select a given message without filtering out everything else, but I can't find it anywhere.  

Am I imagining things?  Does this still exist?

-- Edit --

Trying to clarify with screencaps.


I search for and select a message.  





I clear the search.





The message I had selected has been deselected
The message list pane has scrolled back to the top


What I want is for the message I had selected to still be selected, or at least visible on the screen.
Answering (sort of) my own question.  When making the screenshots I added to the question, I happened to turn off the "Organize by Conversation" option, and it suddenly worked!  When clearing the search box, the selected message remains selected.

Moreover, this also happens:


Turn on "Organize by Conversation"
Enter some search term
Select a message
Clear the search box -- the message will be deselected
Turn off "Organize by Conversation"
The previously selected message is reselected


So I guess the "answer" is that "Organize by Conversation" is simply a shoddy feature that Apple bolted onto their mail client without caring too much how well it works.