Thanks for your feedback.

This change will be included in upcoming 5.15.3.

martin wrote:

I'm sending you an email with a development version of WinSCP to the address you have used to register on this forum.

Yes ... this does exactly what I want! Will this be an option in future releases?

Thanks

I'm sending you an email with a development version of WinSCP to the address you have used to register on this forum.

This request has been added to the tracker:
https://winscp.net/tracker/1742
You can vote for it there.

Your duplicate post on Super User:
https://superuser.com/q/1431616/213663

Before the most recent upgrade (April 2019) I was able to type the first letter of a file name and the file would be "pre-selected" / "highlighted" in the file list. If I repeated to press the same letter, the next file in alphabetical order beginning with that letter would be "pre-selected" ...

After the upgrade, I have to press the letter and then keep pressing tab in order to produce the same effect.

I am wondering if anyone knows what I can do to revert this functionality?