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8 <desc>Browse or search your previous conversations.</desc>
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16 <credit type="author">
17 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
18 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
20 <credit type="author">
21 <name>Shaun McCance</name>
22 <email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
25 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
30 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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36 <title>View previous conversations</title>
39 <app>Empathy</app> automatically saves all your text conversations you have
40 with your contacts. You can <link xref="#search">search through all of your
41 previous conversations</link> or <link xref="#browse">browse previous
42 conversations</link> by contact and date.
47 You do not need to be connected to the Internet to view and search your previous
52 <section id="search" style="task">
53 <title>Search previous conversations</title>
55 <p>You can perform a full-text search through all of your previous conversations.</p>
59 <p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose <guiseq><gui>View</gui>
60 <gui>Previous Conversations</gui></guiseq>. Alternatively, press <key>F3</key>.</p>
63 <p>Select an account from the drop-down list in the top. A list of
64 contacts and chat room for that account will be shown below.</p>
67 <p>Type the text you want to search for in the <gui>Search</gui> text field.
72 Any conversations that matched your search terms will be shown. By
73 default, conversations are ordered by date.
79 <section id="browse" style="task">
80 <title>Browse previous conversations</title>
82 <p>You can browse your previous conversations with your contacts or in
83 chat rooms by date.</p>
87 <p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose <guiseq><gui>View</gui>
88 <gui>Previous Conversations</gui></guiseq>. Alternatively, press <key>F3</key>.</p>
91 <p>Select an account from the drop-down list in the top left. A list of
92 contacts and chat room for that account will be shown below.</p>
95 <p>Select a contact or chat room to view your previous conversations from.
96 By default the most recent conversation will be shown.</p>
99 <p>You can browse your conversations by date. Days on which you had a conversation
100 with the selected contact will be shown in bold text. Click a date to select it.
101 Click the arrows next to the month and year to browse earlier dates.</p>
106 You can search for text in the conversations by typing into the
107 search field at the top. The matching conversations will be showed.
111 <p>You can quickly view the previous conversations with one of your contacts
112 from the <gui>Contact List</gui> window. Simply right click the contact and
113 choose <gui>Previous Conversations</gui>. The <gui>Previous
114 Conversations</gui> window will open with that contact already selected.</p>