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, $0, sgr) }
' <<< "$@"
}