Then I went about testing it a bit and thought, yeah this is pretty good! I will just send these over to the nano-deldev team at nano-editor.org. Long story short I got my hand slapped PRETTY good. They pretty much showed me that I was no where near ready to publish these. So I set about fixing these and these are the final results.
BATCH:
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##
syntax "batch" "\.(bat|cmd)$"
## Parameters that are normally %x in cmd
icolor brightred "%%."
## Major statements
icolor red "\<(do|else|exist|exit|for|goto|if|not|return|say|select|then|when)\>"
icolor brightcyan "\<(ansi|append|assign|assoc|attrib|at|autofail|backup|basedev|boot|break|buffers|cache|cacls|cd|chcp|chdir|chkdsk|chkntfs|cls|cmd|codepage|color|command|compact|comp|convert|copy|date|del|dir|diskcomp|diskcopy|doskey|echo|endlocal|erase|fc|find|findstr|format|ftype|graftabl|help|keyb|label|md|mkdir|mode|more|move|path|pause|popd|print|prompt|pushd|rd|recover|rename|ren|replace|restore|rmdir|run|set|setboot|setlocal|shift|sort|start|subst|time|title|trapdump|tree|type|undelete|unpack|use|verify|ver|vol|xcopy)\>"
## Call for a batch file or subroutine
icolor magenta "^call :?[:alnum:].*$"
## Comparison operators
icolor brightmagenta "\<(equ|neq|gtr|lss|geq|leq)\>"
color brightyellow "=="
## Comments
icolor brightblue "(^[[:space:]]*(\<rem\>|::).*$)"
## Quoted text
icolor brightwhite ""[^"]*""
## Variables
icolor yellow "\%[a-zA-Z_]+[:alnum:]*[0-9]?\%"
## Trailling whitespace
color ,green "[[:space:]]+$"
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As you can tell, that is a much cleaner and shorter version from my original. I have learned QUITE a bit of POSIX regex because of these silly little files. BUT I personally think they look much better. And to be honest, if I use them enough and need to change something, I can do it more freely now!
POWERSHELL:
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##
syntax "powershell" "\.(ps1|psm1)$"
## Most commands
icolor cyan "\<(Add-Computer|Add-Content|Add-History|Add-Member|Add-PSSnapin|Add-Type|asnp|cat|cd|cd..|chdir|Checkpoint-Co|clc|clear|Clear-Content|Clear-EventLo|Clear-History|Clear-Host|Clear-Item|Clear-ItemPro|Clear-Variabl|clhy|cli|clp|cls|clv|compare|Compare-Objec|Complete-Tran|Connect-WSMan|ConvertFrom-C|ConvertFrom-S|ConvertFrom-S|Convert-Path|ConvertTo-Csv|ConvertTo-Htm|ConvertTo-Sec|ConvertTo-Xml|copy|Copy-Item|Copy-ItemProp|cp|cpi|cpp|cvpa|dbp|Debug-Process|del|diff|dir|Disable-Compu|Disable-PSBre|Disable-PSRem|Disable-PSSes|Disable-WSMan|Disconnect-WS|ebp|echo|Enable-Comput|Enable-PSBrea|Enable-PSRemo|Enable-PSSess|Enable-WSManC|Enter-PSSessi|epal|epcsv|epsn|erase|etsn|Exit-PSSessio|Export-Alias|Export-Clixml|Export-Consol|Export-Counte|Export-Csv|Export-Format|Export-Module|Export-PSSess|exsn|foreach|ForEach-Objec|Format-Custom|Format-List|Format-Table|Format-Wide|gal|gbp|gc|gci|gcm|gcs|gdr|Get-Acl|Get-Alias|Get-Authentic|Get-ChildItem|Get-Command|Get-ComputerR|Get-Content|Get-Counter|Get-Credentia|Get-Culture|Get-Date|Get-Event|Get-EventLog|Get-EventSubs|Get-Execution|Get-FormatDat|Get-Help|Get-History|Get-Host|Get-HotFix|Get-Item|Get-ItemPrope|Get-Job|Get-Location|Get-Member|Get-Module|Get-PfxCertif|Get-Process|Get-PSBreakpo|Get-PSCallSta|Get-PSDrive|Get-PSProvide|Get-PSSession|Get-PSSession|Get-PSSnapin|Get-Random|Get-Service|Get-TraceSour|Get-Transacti|Get-UICulture|Get-Unique|Get-Variable|Get-Verb|Get-WinEvent|Get-WmiObject|Get-WSManCred|Get-WSManInst|ghy|gjb|gmo|gps|group|Group-Object|gsn|gsnp|gsv|gwmi|help|history|icm|iex|ihy|Import-Alias|Import-Clixml|Import-Counte|Import-Csv|Import-Locali|Import-Module|Import-PSSess|ImportSystemM|Invoke-Comman|Invoke-Expres|Invoke-Histor|Invoke-Item|Invoke-WmiMet|Invoke-WSManA|ipal|ipcsv|ipmo|ipsn|ise|iwmi|Join-Path|kill|Limit-EventLo|man|measure|Measure-Comma|Measure-Objec|mkdir|more|mount|move|Move-Item|Move-ItemProp|mv|nal|ndr|New-Alias|New-Event|New-EventLog|New-Item|New-ItemPrope|New-Module|New-ModuleMan|New-Object|New-PSDrive|New-PSSession|New-PSSession|New-Service|New-TimeSpan|New-Variable|New-WebServic|New-WSManInst|New-WSManSess|nmo|nsn|ogv|Out-Default|Out-File|Out-GridView|Out-Host|Out-Null|Out-Printer|Out-String|popd|Pop-Location|prompt|pushd|Push-Location|pwd|rbp|rcjb|rdr|Read-Host|Receive-Job|Register-Engi|Register-Obje|Register-PSSe|Register-WmiE|Remove-Comput|Remove-Event|Remove-EventL|Remove-Item|Remove-ItemPr|Remove-Job|Remove-Module|Remove-PSBrea|Remove-PSDriv|Remove-PSSess|Remove-PSSnap|Remove-Variab|Remove-WmiObj|Remove-WSManI|ren|Rename-Item|Rename-ItemPr|Reset-Compute|Resolve-Path|Restart-Compu|Restart-Servi|Restore-Compu|Resume-Servic|rjb|rmdir|rmo|rni|rnp|rsn|rsnp|rvpa|rwmi|sajb|sal|saps|sasv|sbp|select|Select-Object|Select-String|Select-Xml|Send-MailMess|set|Set-Acl|Set-Alias|Set-Authentic|Set-Content|Set-Date|Set-Execution|Set-Item|Set-ItemPrope|Set-Location|Set-PSBreakpo|Set-PSDebug|Set-PSSession|Set-Service|Set-StrictMod|Set-TraceSour|Set-Variable|Set-WmiInstan|Set-WSManInst|Set-WSManQuic|Show-EventLog|sleep|sort|Sort-Object|spjb|Split-Path|spps|spsv|start|Start-Job|Start-Process|Start-Service|Start-Sleep|Start-Transac|Start-Transcr|Stop-Computer|Stop-Job|Stop-Process|Stop-Service|Stop-Transcri|Suspend-Servi|swmi|TabExpansion|tee|Tee-Object|Test-Computer|Test-Connecti|Test-ModuleMa|Test-Path|Test-WSMan|Trace-Command|type|Undo-Transact|Unregister-Ev|Unregister-PS|Update-Format|Update-List|Update-TypeDa|Use-Transacti|Wait-Event|Wait-Job|Wait-Process|where|Where-Object|wjb|write|Write-Debug|Write-Error|Write-EventLo|Write-Host|Write-Output|Write-Progres|Write-Verbose|Write-Warning)\>"
## Functions
icolor brightyellow "\<(function)\>"
## Comparison operators
icolor brightyellow "-\<(eq|ne|gt|lt|ge|le)\>"
## Variables
icolor brightred "(\$[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)"
## Major statements
icolor brightcyan "\<(if|do|else|elseif|for|foreach|switch|until|while)\>"
## Comments
color brightblue "(^)?(([[:space:]]?)+)#.*$"
## Quoted text
color brightwhite "\".*\""
color brightwhite "\'.*\'"
## Text between %'s which is unique to searches
icolor brightmagenta "\%.*\%"
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As you can tell, these are still quite long, but unfortunately they will have to be because of all of the commandlets. For the most part though, these are much cleaner and should work much better than before. I have even changed a few things that I hadn't thought about the first time. I worked with @OnlineCop on IRC-Freenode's #regex channel. He deserves credit for almost all of the teaching! If anyone is interested in learning about how these work, please feel free to hit me up and I'll try to rack my brain to try to help!
As for these files, you can get them from https://github.com/mitchell486/nanorc or from the lines above. I'm not positive if these will work on nano for windows, but maybe I'll test that later. (I did have one person hit me up one time for these and was going to use them on windows, but I'm not sure if they ever worked as expected or not.)
-Mitch
