The history window

Purpose

In the history window, you can check all the pages you have visited in the current AWeb session. You can select old pages to display again. The history window offers filtering and ordering options.

Opening the window

Select Navigate / Window history from the menu to open the history window. The display will be filtered automatically for the window in which you selected the menu item.

If the history window is already open, it will pop up to front, and will be activated. Also, the selected window will change to the window for which you opened the history.

The history list

In the list, all visited pages are shown.

The first column contains the window number. This is the same number as appears in the title bar of the window.

The second column contains the mainline indicator. This is a little arrow: .
Suppose you retrieve pages A - B - C - D, then go back to C, back to B, and then retrieve page E. In this case the mainline is A - B - E. These are the pages that the back and forward buttons will walk along.

The third column contains the title of the page, or the URL if no title is known.

The fourth column contains the cache indicator. If the symbol is present, the page is still in AWeb's cache. Going back to this page won't need any network access.

If you selected natural or mainline order, the current document will be highlighted. The two fields below the list show the title and URL for the highlighted page.

Redisplay a page

Select the page you want to see again from the list. You can click on the entry, or use the arrow keys to move the highlight. Then click the display button, or hit the Enter key.

Another way to redisplay a page is to doubleclick on the entry.

If you have the History window auto close setting selected, the window will close automatically.

Filtering

If the Filter checkbox is selected, the list will only show entries for the window number selected in the window field.

If you deselect the Filter checkbox, the list will show entries for all windows.

Ordering

With the Order chooser, you can select how the entries in the list should be ordered.

Natural: Natural ordering shows all displayed pages in the order you have displayed them. If you go back a few pages, then go to another page, the latest page is added at the end of the list. If you redisplay a page that was displayed before, it is also added again to the end of the list.
Mainline: The list shows only the pages on the mainline. That is, entries for which the mainline indicator is off will not be shown.
Retrieved: The list contains the pages in the order as they were retrieved for the first time. The list will show every page only once.
Title: The entries in the list are sorted by their title.
URL: The entries in the list are sorted by their URL (network address). The list will show URLs instead of titles if you select this ordering.

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