[RFC]: add a `search` API to the REPL
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### Description
This RFC proposes adding built-in support for searching within the stdlib REPL environment. Something along the lines of
```
In [1]: search( 'absolute value' )
```
While the REPL supports TAB completion, including the display of potential matches, one still has to know, more or less, where to find things, which can be difficult due to the use of namespaces (e.g., `base`, `base.strided`, `random`, etc).
In short, it can be hard to find the REPL function you want to use. This RFC proposes reducing that barrier by building in search capabilities to the REPL.
### Related Issues
No.
### Questions
- Should search be fuzzy? Probably. If someone types `'abolute value'`, we shouldn't return zero results because the user misspelled `absolute`.
- Prior art: https://github.com/farzher/fuzzysort
- What should be returned? We may want modes/flags that allow users to specify what they want to return. E.g., REPL aliases, package names, etc.
### Other
- We have some prior art for this in the project. Namely, for the API documentation website we use https://github.com/stdlib-js/stdlib/tree/develop/lib/node_modules/%40stdlib/_tools/search/pkg-index for generating the search index. We could potentially leverage that for building a similar idea, and may be beneficial to write our own TF-IDF package.
- As search would be built into the REPL, we'd need to create our own search implementation, as currently we rely on `lunr` as a dev dep and making a non-dev-dep is not desired, as we try to minimize any and all production dependencies.
### Checklist
- [X] I have read and understood the [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/stdlib-js/stdlib/blob/develop/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
- [X] Searched for existing issues and pull requests.
- [X] The issue name begins with `RFC:`.
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调研方向
This is an RFC rather than an implementation task and does not name a REPL source file or test. Start by locating the stdlib REPL entry point and reading lib/node_modules/@stdlib/_tools/search/pkg-index, which the issue identifies as prior art. Done would require settling the search behavior, result modes, fuzzy matching, and dependency strategy before implementation.
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