Allow searching the text-index by gene name from the URL bar #4068
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This adds the ability to search by gene name from the &loc= in the URL bar for launching a linear genome view.
This would not yet work for synteny view because the synteny view still uses just navToLocString which assumes a locstring
Examples
note that this may be just a larger issue of search box behavior, but I believe that it might popup if e.g. there are two gene tracks (e.g. ensembl and ncbi) with the same gene name even if they have "the same location"...it's not that bad but it may be undesirable for the URL bar to popup the selection box too much, its better to just jump right into the genome view if possible
this PR is in response to a office hours issue
xref #3149