UI: Search field with syntax coloring and autocompletion #1072
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What is the current behaviour?
MWDB search syntax is pretty verbose and complex and may be intimidating for unexperienced users. It would be nice to have at least syntax coloring and autocompletion suggestions to make the malware database more discoverable.
What is the new behaviour?
This PR introduces basic syntax coloring. It's based on two components:
contenteditablediv for rich renderingSecond thing added by this PR is autosuggestion mechanism. Search query can be easily typed using keyboard:

I have also implemented attribute suggestions, including subfields. Information about subfields is fetched from "Example value" - part of Rich attributes template.
Right now the autosuggestion feature is a bit limited: