elastic/elasticsearch

Deprecate keyword_repeat in favor of the new multiplexer filter

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#33,562 opened on Sep 10, 2018

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Description

Looking at the docs, keyword_repeat seems to be mostly designed as a way to have both stemmed and original tokens indexed, which is now better handled by the multiplexer filter.

Should we deprecate keyword_repeat?

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Search the codebase for all references to keyword repeat. Understand the multiplexer filter and how it replaces the functionality. Determine if keyword repeat can be deprecated without breaking changes, and propose a deprecation plan.
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