I have seen that using bask with a call to awk code does not colour highlight the awk syntax.

It would be highly desirable if emacs could also highlight the awk code enclosed in single quotes.

prax ()

 {

  ## Print coloured function controls

  awk -v fgb="$blu" -v fgw="$wht" -v rst="$sgr"  \

    'BEGIN {

       "tput sgr0" |& getline sgr

       "tput bold; tput setaf 15" |& getline wht

       "tput bold; tput setaf 39" |& getline blu

     }

     /Code:$/ { kl=1 ; next }

     !NF { kl=0 }

     kl { printf("%s%s%s\n", blu, $0, sgr) }

     !kl { printf("%s%s%s\n", wht, $0, sgr) }

    ' <<< "$@"

 }