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8 Search your previous conversations.
10 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-17" status="stub"/>
11 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-19" status="review"/>
12 <credit type="author">
13 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
14 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
18 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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23 <title>Previous conversations</title>
26 <app>Empathy</app> automatically saves all your text conversations you have
27 with your contacts, and lets you perform two different kinds of search: a
28 normal text search, or a per-conversation search.
31 The normal search is a <em>full text</em> search: it will search the exact text in
32 all your previous conversations.
35 The per-conversation search permits you to limit the text search to a particular
36 contact and conversation, and permits you to look at all the previous
37 conversations you had with your contacts.
42 You do not need to be connected to the Internet to search your previous
50 To start searching your previous conversations, from the <gui>Contact List</gui>
51 window, perform one of the following:
61 Choose <guiseq><gui>View</gui><gui>Previous Conversations</gui></guiseq>.
68 Based on the kind of search you want to perform, see
69 <link xref="prev-conv#normal-search"/> or <link xref="prev-conv#contact-search"/>
75 <section id="normal-search">
76 <title>Normal search</title>
80 Select the <gui>Search</gui> tab.
85 In the <gui>For</gui> text box, type the text you want to search, and click on
91 If there are results, they will be shown in the first pane, ordered by date.
96 Click on the result to see the exact text you were searching for on the
100 The search results will be highlighted.
106 <section id="contact-search">
107 <title>Conversation search</title>
111 Select the <gui>Conversations</gui> tab.
116 From the drop-down list at the top of the window, select your account.
121 From the left top pane, select the contact you want to look the previous
122 conversations of. The previous conversations will be shown on the right pane.
125 By default, the last conversation you had will be shown.
129 Based on your account selected and the service of that account, it will
130 be possible to select contacts, IRC rooms or group conversations.
136 From the left bottom pane, you can browse your conversations by date. Based
137 on the contact selected, the date in which you had a conversation will
138 be highlighted in bold text.
143 To perform a text search, type the text you want to search in the text box
144 at the top of the window.
147 The search results will be highlighted.