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