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search: facilitate simple searches if globbing is active

Administrator requested to merge sh/magic_globbing into main

Created by: stefanhengl

Relates to https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/12476

With this PR we slightly modify the interpretation of filter values if globbing is active.

Users can now enter queries like

repo:sourcegraph file:search.go

which will be interpreted as

repo:**sourcegraph** file:**search.go**

in the backend.

Filter values containing glob symbols or path separators will be interpreted as glob-pattern without further modification. Results that match the file: filter value exactly (e.g. files named search.go in any directory) will be listed first. Multiple exact matches are sorted by length of the file path, and then alphabetically.

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