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Trenton HolmesandClaude Fable 5 171b0a6f77 fix(search): rewrite bare notes:/custom_fields: prefixes to their subpaths
The v2 whoosh schema had plural notes/custom_fields TEXT fields (notes
indexed the joined note texts, custom_fields indexed joined
"name : value" strings), so "notes:foo" and "custom_fields:foo" were
valid fielded searches in released paperless and through the deleted
translation layer. On the whoosh-compat registry those names are JSON
fields addressable only via subpaths, and the bare spelling silently
demoted to an unfielded text search of the words themselves, matching
unrelated documents that merely contain "notes" or "custom".

parse_user_query now rewrites the bare prefixes live to the same
targets migration 0017 chose for the singular whoosh-era spellings:
notes: becomes notes.note: and custom_fields: becomes
custom_fields.value:, with 0017's lookbehind guard so subpath spellings
and words merely ending in the prefix are untouched. Prefix
substitution only; values ride through unchanged, and every value shape
lands in a documented outcome downstream (ranges, wildcards and exists
on JSON subpaths are typed errors, not crashes). The inherited
trade-off stands: custom_fields.value: drops the name-matching half of
v2's combined indexing, with custom_fields.name: available for it.

Acceptance tests pin the rewrite with decoy documents whose content
contains the literal prefix words, which the old demotion matched and
the fielded search must not, plus untouched-subpath controls.
docs/usage.md documents the bare prefixes as subpath shorthand.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WMsn6DgzbvSqh1pwy66VVF
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