Nano Patches

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FINISHED - will be in patch 3

• NEXT-COLOR and NEXT-ICOLOR commmands.
• Single-line subcolors.

FINISHED - will be in patch 4

• FORCED-COLOR and FORCED-ICOLOR commands to temporarily disable match list.
• Match lists inside highlighter to speed up rendering by reducing the number of matches. Also fixes the "foo//bar" and //foo"bar" problem.

TODO for patch 4

• Finish multi-line match list support. Will fix single/multi-line C-string problems.

TODO

• multi-line subcolors -- blue regex is only evaluated for the text between start and end matches.

  	color red start="(" end=")"
  	{
  		color blue ","
  	}
  	

• NEST prefix for nested multi-line COLOR and ICOLOR commands. Could be used for languages that support nested comments so /* foo /* bar */ baz */ is correctly highlighted. Could also be used to find unmatched parentheses or brackets.

  	# highlight matched parentheses
  	nest color red start="\(" end="\)"
  	# highlight unmatched parentheses
  	color blue "[()]"
  	

  This example would require a prefix to exclude the contents inside the match.
• ITEM and EVAL commands to store and evaluate collections of patterns.

  	item foo
  	{
  		color red "foo"
  		color blue "bar"
  	}
  	eval foo
  	

• Menu to change syntax while inside nano.
• FOR command to load settings for files matching a pattern.

  	for "/path/*" "file"
  	{
  		set tabsize 8
  	}
  	

• FILETYPE command to select syntaxes based on mime-type instead of filename.