Say when a query is not understood, and let a pattern keep its escapes and commas

[donislawdev]

Package F of the stability report: the query language says when it does not understand, and a pattern keeps its escapes and commas.

What changes for somebody using the tool

Measured on a machine with about 800 entries, before the change in brackets:

Query	Now	Before
name:/a\?/	0	800 - the backslash was lost, a? matches everything
path:/C:\\Windows/	295	0 - \W became a character class
name:/^w{2,}/	1	0 - the comma cut the pattern in two
pid:>1000 pid:<2000	11	121 - two bounds were folded into either
C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	251	exit 2, "no field called C"
name://	exit 2	800
name:/abc	exit 2, says how to close it or write \/	0 with no word

• Turning a filter off when the box holds status:running,stopped leaves status:running instead of an empty box.
• ? finds a field that was refused or never read. none and any count such an entry among the unsure ones instead of a confident no.
• The same field written twice with values is still either, and a comma is still or: pid:<100,>60000 asks for both ends outside a range.

Contract

The meaning of three existing spellings changes (escapes in a pattern, two bounds on a number, ? with none and any on a field without an answer), so QueryParser.SyntaxVersion goes from 2 to 3. QueryProblemKind gains UnclosedPattern at the end. README, the query language page (both languages) and CHANGELOG.md say it.

Checked

• Narrow test runs over the query classes of the core, the command line and window classes that read query texts, the architecture guards and the integration tests about queries, plus the prose guards and the site tests after the public texts changed. All green after three red guards were answered (a counted word, a size ratchet, a depth ratchet going down).
• Mutations for every entry anchored in a changed file: 43 of 43 caught, 18 of them new.
• Not looked at in the live window: the "Could not check" filter now shows every entry whose signature is still being read, then narrows when the reading ends.

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