Vikhyath Mondreti 5d172b4e94 fix(search): match block references by the name the canvas shows (#6779)
* fix(search): match block references by the name the canvas shows

A block reference stores its target as the block's normalized name -
lowercased with whitespace and dots stripped - so a block titled "Send Email"
is written `<sendemail.content>`. Workflow search indexed that token as-is, so
its searchable text never contained the block's actual name.

Searching a name the way it reads on the card therefore found the block itself
and none of its references, while the run-together form found the references
and not the block. No single query could find both, and the run-together form
is the one nothing in the UI ever shows.

Resolve a reference's prefix back through the same helper that produced it, so
the reference is searched under the name the block is titled with. `rawValue`
is untouched, so the stored form keeps matching and the highlight and replace
paths, which key off it, are unaffected.

Environment references, system prefixes like `loop`, and references left
behind by a deleted block resolve to no name and stay exactly as written.

* fix(search): keep the dot-free name on a legacy reference-prefix collision

Creating or renaming a block enforces uniqueness at the normalized level, but
legacy workflows can still hold two names that collide only now that
`normalizeName` strips dots. `BlockResolver` settles that tie by letting the
dot-free name keep ownership of the key, so previously working references never
change targets.

The prefix map took whichever block was iterated last instead, so search could
name a reference after the dotted block while execution resolved it to the
dot-free one - search reporting the wrong block, which is what this is meant to
stop. Mirror the resolver's rule so both agree.
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