1. I was thinking many times about this - an awk IDE, that would also handle common utility functions (i.e. there is no convenient way to print a range of field

1. I was thinking many times about this - an awk IDE, that would also handle common utility functions (i.e. there is no convenient way to print a range of fields). Maybe an Awk Language Server would be a fun project. 2 & 3. Structural regular expressions awk is something I long for. If someone wants to rewrite awk in Rust or whatever, please add this, that would be a killer feature. http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/ http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/ EDIT: There is an Awk Language Server! - https://github.com/fwip/awk-language-server https://github.com/fwip/awk-language-server