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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="topic"
id="prev-conv">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#text-conv"/>
<desc>
Search your previous conversations.
</desc>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-17" status="stub"/>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-19" status="review"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Milo Casagrande</name>
<email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
</credit>
<copyright>
<year>2009</year>
<name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
</copyright>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
</info>
<title>Previous conversations</title>
<p>
<app>Empathy</app> automatically saves all your text conversations you have
with your contacts, and lets you perform two different kinds of search: a
normal text search, or a per-conversation search.
</p>
<p>
The normal search is a <em>full text</em> search: it will search the exact text in
all your previous conversations.
</p>
<p>
The per-conversation search permits you to limit the text search to a particular
contact and conversation, and permits you to look at all the previous
conversations you had with your contacts.
</p>
<note>
<p>
You do not need to be connected to the Internet to search your previous
conversations.
</p>
</note>
<steps>
<item>
<p>
To start searching your previous conversations, from the <gui>Contact List</gui>
window, perform one of the following:
</p>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Press <key>F3</key>.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Choose <guiseq><gui>View</gui><gui>Previous Conversations</gui></guiseq>.
</p>
</item>
</list>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Based on the kind of search you want to perform, see
<link xref="prev-conv#normal-search"/> or <link xref="prev-conv#contact-search"/>
for more information.
</p>
</item>
</steps>
<section id="normal-search">
<title>Normal search</title>
<steps>
<item>
<p>
Select the <gui>Search</gui> tab.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
In the <gui>For</gui> text box, type the text you want to search, and click on
<gui>Find</gui>.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
If there are results, they will be shown in the first pane, ordered by date.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Click on the result to see the exact text you were searching for on the
bottom pane.
</p>
<p>
The search results will be highlighted.
</p>
</item>
</steps>
</section>
<section id="contact-search">
<title>Conversation search</title>
<steps>
<item>
<p>
Select the <gui>Conversations</gui> tab.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
From the drop-down list at the top of the window, select your account.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
From the left top pane, select the contact you want to look the previous
conversations of. The previous conversations will be shown on the right pane.
</p>
<p>
By default, the last conversation you had will be shown.
</p>
<note>
<p>
Based on your account selected and the service of that account, it will
be possible to select contacts, IRC rooms or group conversations.
</p>
</note>
</item>
<item>
<p>
From the left bottom pane, you can browse your conversations by date. Based
on the contact selected, the date in which you had a conversation will
be highlighted in bold text.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
To perform a text search, type the text you want to search in the text box
at the top of the window.
</p>
<p>
The search results will be highlighted.
</p>
</item>
</steps>
</section>
</page>
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