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search: pass language to structural search

Administrator requested to merge rvt/pass-lang-to-structural-search into master

Created by: rvantonder

Pass the values of lang to searcher so that structural search can pick a matcher. The lang parameter is traditionally used by Zoekt/literal/regex searcher to only filter files by extension. By passing the lang parameter to searcher, comby can use the lang parameter in a semantically meaningful way to force language-aware parsing.

Architecture note:

Structural search only works when indexing is active. This means that lang and file parameters in the query are honored and processed by Zoekt code first, always. For structural search, Zoekt returns files matching parts of the search pattern we care about, and these files are the only thing we are interested in (we no longer care about performing filtering on files using regular expressions, like \.c$|\.h$, etc.). Thus: includePatterns is wiped when isStructuralPat is true, and we populate the includePatterns with the file paths returned by Zoekt for structural search to process.

If and when structural search is activated for unindexed search (not currently supported), the logic will need to process regex file patterns. For now we don't need to worry about this because the Zoekt code is a required passthrough.

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