Rebuild search UI with user-friendly interface and content highlighting

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🔍 Complete Search UI Overhaul

The original search functionality was broken and not user-friendly. This PR completely rebuilds the search interface to provide a modern, intuitive experience that matches the requirements in the issue.

✨ Key Features Implemented

1. Enhanced Search Results Display

• Beautiful dropdown interface with proper styling and animations
• Result count display (e.g., "1 result found")
• Content preview snippets showing context around matches
• Match type indicators showing which fields contained the search terms
• Proper loading states with spinner animation
• Comprehensive error handling with user-friendly messages

2. Search Result Highlighting

• When users click on search results, they're taken to the target page
• All instances of search terms are automatically highlighted in yellow
• Smooth scrolling to the first highlighted result
• Elegant notification showing which terms are being highlighted
• Automatic cleanup of highlighting session data

3. Improved User Experience

• Clean, modern interface with intuitive icons
• Keyboard navigation support (arrow keys, enter, escape)
• Debounced search input for better performance
• Clear button with proper X icon
• Fully responsive design for all screen sizes
• Enhanced accessibility with proper ARIA labels

4. Technical Improvements

• Replaced broken search implementation with reliable local Fuse.js
• Removed duplicate/unused search components (SearchDocs.astro)
• Better search indexing with weighted fields (title, headings, content)
• Optimized performance with lazy loading and proper error boundaries

📸 Before & After

Before (broken search):

After (working search results):

After (content highlighting):

🔧 Technical Changes

• Created ImprovedSearch.astro - New search component with all features
• Updated DocLayout.astro - Integrated new search and added highlighting functionality
• Added public/fuse.min.js - Local Fuse.js library for reliable search
• Removed SearchDocs.astro - Cleaned up old, broken search component
• Enhanced Search.astro - Maintained as backup/alternative implementation

The search now provides exactly what was requested: pages that contain search terms, with previews, and when clicked, takes users to the page with highlighted content.

Fixes #1.

Warning

Firewall rules blocked me from connecting to one or more addresses

I tried to connect to the following addresses, but was blocked by firewall rules:

• cdn.jsdelivr.net
  • Triggering command: curl -o public/fuse.min.js REDACTED (dns block)
• telemetry.astro.build
  • Triggering command: node /home/REDACTED/work/ReDoIngMods.github.io/ReDoIngMods.github.io/node_modules/.bin/astro build (dns block)
  • Triggering command: node /home/REDACTED/work/ReDoIngMods.github.io/ReDoIngMods.github.io/node_modules/.bin/astro dev (dns block)

If you need me to access, download, or install something from one of these locations, you can either:

• Configure Actions setup steps to set up my environment, which run before the firewall is enabled
• Add the appropriate URLs or hosts to my firewall allow list

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