Sending IM to multiple persons at sametime

[Daniel Atallah]

2008/12/5 parinay <parinay.jain at oracle.com>:
> 1. How to search buddies using the  CTRL + F functionality. I am unable to
> search buddies  as the buddy list is long and  need to browse through names
> to locate.

This should just work.  If you're on Windows, you may need to upgrade
to a newer version as there was a GTK+ bug that caused the Find popup
to not accept any input.

> 2.Earlier  when we were using  jabber , we could send single message to
> multiple people at  sametime by just selecting the names by pressing CTRL
> button and pasting the
>    message.Is there any such option available here ?

There is no such feature in Pidgin.

-D