Whitelisting conditions about search-string HOT 4 OPEN

@braco sorry for the delay. Thanks for the kind words and advice! I think that currently works by wrapping that text in quotes e.g.:

const str = 'title:"Foobar: The story of Steve"';
const searchString = SearchString.parse(str);

Then we do not strip out the : as a delimiter. See this repl example.

Does that make sense?

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That does make sense, but I think it's asking too much of the user. It would depend on the application, but in this particular one and Google who normalized this parameter style, these are advanced/discoverable features.

I built a wrapper that tries to restore the original query text, but the word order can't be guaranteed, so it's not ideal. Without doing that, words would just fall into a black hole.

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Thinking about it, I guess an ignoreEmptyParameters: true feature would help if nothing else. That way "param: " would be parsed as regular text...?

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@braco sorry not totally following. Mind adding a PR with some tests that show the behavior you're looking for?

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