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8 <desc>Browse or search your previous conversations.</desc>
9 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-17" status="stub"/>
10 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-31" status="review">
12 <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-08-31" status="done"/>
15 <credit type="author">
16 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
17 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
19 <credit type="author">
20 <name>Shaun McCance</name>
21 <email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
24 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
29 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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35 <title>View previous conversations</title>
38 <cite date="2009-08-31">Shaun McCance</cite>
39 <p>Highlighting text is quirky:
40 <link href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593733">#593733</link>.
41 If there's an actual highlighting going on, independent of the selection
42 (like in yellow or something), we can use the term "highlight". Otherwise
43 we need to use the term "select". Watch that bug.</p>
47 <app>Empathy</app> automatically saves all your text conversations you have
48 with your contacts. You can <link xref="#search">search through all of your
49 previous conversations</link> or <link xref="#browse">browse previous
50 conversations</link> by contact and date.
55 You do not need to be connected to the Internet to view and search your previous
60 <section id="search" style="task">
61 <title>Search previous conversations</title>
63 <p>You can perform a full-text search through all of your previous conversations.</p>
67 <p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose <guiseq><gui>View</gui>
68 <gui>Previous Conversations</gui></guiseq>. Alternatively, press <key>F3</key>.</p>
71 <p>Select the <gui>Search</gui> tab.</p>
74 <p>In the <gui>For</gui> field, type the text you want to search for.
75 Click <gui>Find</gui> or press <key>Enter</key>.</p>
78 <p>Any conversations that matched your search terms will be shown in the list below
79 the search field. By default, conversations are ordered by date.</p>
82 <p>Click on a conversation to view it. <app>Empathy</app> will select the text
83 in the conversation that matched your search terms.</p>
88 <section id="browse" style="task">
89 <title>Browse previous conversations</title>
91 <p>You can browse your previous conversations with your contacts or in
92 chat rooms by date.</p>
96 <p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose <guiseq><gui>View</gui>
97 <gui>Previous Conversations</gui></guiseq>. Alternatively, press <key>F3</key>.</p>
100 <p>Select the <gui>Conversations</gui> tab.</p>
103 <p>Select an account from the drop-down list in the top left. A list of
104 contacts and chat room for that account will be shown below.</p>
107 <p>Select a contact or chat room to view your previous conversations from.
108 By default the most recent conversation will be shown.</p>
111 <p>You can browse your conversations by date. Days on which you had a conversation
112 with the selected contact will be shown in bold text. Click a date to select it.
113 Click the arrows next to the month and year to browse earlier dates.</p>
117 <p>You can search for text in the displayed conversation by typing into the
118 search field at the top. The matching text will be highlighted.</p>
121 <p>You can quickly view the previous conversations with one of your contacts
122 from the <gui>Contact List</gui> window. Simply right click the contact and
123 choose <gui>View Previous Conversations</gui>. The <gui>Previous
124 Conversations</gui> window will open with that contact already selected.</p>