diff --git a/src/DiffEngineViewer.Tests/QueueRemovalTests.cs b/src/DiffEngineViewer.Tests/QueueRemovalTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..024b3576
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/DiffEngineViewer.Tests/QueueRemovalTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/// <summary>
+/// What a removal does to the entry being read. Removals arrive for entries other than that one -
+/// a settle from a test that has started passing, a sweep from a group header, a bulk accept that
+/// skipped this entry - and the reader is in the middle of a comparison while they do.
+/// </summary>
+public class QueueRemovalTests
+{
+    [Test]
+    public async Task Settling_another_entry_leaves_the_one_being_read_where_it_was()
+    {
+        var state = Scrolled(out var reading);
+
+        var settled = ViewerSession.Settle(state, state.Queue[0].Key);
+
+        await Assert.That(settled.Current!.Key).IsEqualTo(reading);
+        await Assert.That(settled.ScrollTop).IsEqualTo(state.ScrollTop);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The entry on screen going is the one case where the reader has to be moved, and the top of
+    /// the next entry is where they go.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Test]
+    public async Task Settling_the_entry_being_read_moves_on_to_the_next()
+    {
+        var state = Scrolled(out var reading);
+
+        var settled = ViewerSession.Settle(state, reading);
+
+        await Assert.That(settled.Current!.Key).IsNotEqualTo(reading);
+        await Assert.That(settled.ScrollTop).IsEqualTo(0);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Three entries, the middle one selected and scrolled into - so that a removal above it moves
+    /// every index below, which is the thing being asserted about.
+    /// </summary>
+    static SessionState Scrolled(out string reading)
+    {
+        var state = Fixtures.Inline(
+            Fixtures.Patch("A.cs", 1, null, Fixtures.Long(true)),
+            Fixtures.Patch("B.cs", 2, null, Fixtures.Long(true)),
+            Fixtures.Patch("C.cs", 3, null, Fixtures.Long(true)));
+        reading = state.Queue[1].Key;
+        state = ViewerSession.SelectKey(state, reading);
+        state = ViewerSession.Apply(state, CommandKind.PageDown);
+        if (state.ScrollTop == 0)
+        {
+            throw new("The entry did not scroll, so nothing below asserts anything.");
+        }
+
+        return state;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/DiffEngineViewer/ViewerSession.cs b/src/DiffEngineViewer/ViewerSession.cs
index d59969e7..eb734e31 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngineViewer/ViewerSession.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngineViewer/ViewerSession.cs
@@ -870,16 +870,32 @@ static int IndexOf(IReadOnlyList<QueueEntry> queue, string key)
         return -1;
     }
 
-    static SessionState Remove(SessionState state, IReadOnlyList<QueueEntry> queue, string? message) =>
-        Clamp(state with
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Drops whatever is no longer in the queue and leaves the reader where they were.
+    /// <para>
+    /// Most removals are not of the entry on screen: a settle from a test that has started
+    /// passing, "Accept all in &lt;solution&gt;" from a header, a sweep that skipped this one.
+    /// Holding <see cref="SessionState.Selected" /> as an index across those quietly changed what
+    /// was on screen to whatever the old index now landed on, at the top of it. So the selection
+    /// follows its key, the way <see cref="Sync" /> and <see cref="EnqueueInline" /> do, and only
+    /// an entry that is itself gone falls back to advancing by index.
+    /// </para>
+    /// </summary>
+    static SessionState Remove(SessionState state, IReadOnlyList<QueueEntry> queue, string? message)
+    {
+        var key = state.Current?.Key;
+        var selected = key is null ? -1 : IndexOf(queue, key);
+        return Clamp(state with
         {
             Queue = queue,
-            ScrollTop = 0,
+            Selected = selected < 0 ? state.Selected : selected,
+            ScrollTop = selected < 0 ? 0 : state.ScrollTop,
             Message = message,
             // Nothing left to manage, so the window has no reason to stay open.
             Exit = queue.Count == 0,
             Menu = null
         });
+    }
 
     static SessionState Select(SessionState state, int index)
     {