= Extensions to the xterm protocol
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kitty has a few extensions to the xterm protocol, to enable advanced features.
These are typically in the form of new or re-purposed escape codes. While these
extensions are currently kitty specific, it would be nice to get some of them
adopted more broadly.

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== Colored and styled underlines

kitty supports colored and styled (wavy) underlines. This is of particular use
in terminal editors such as vim and emacs to display red, wavy underlines under
mis-spelled words and/or syntax errors. This is done by re-purposing some SGR escape codes
that are not used in modern terminals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#CSI_codes)

To change the underline style from straight line to curl (this used to be the
code for rapid blinking text, only previous use I know of was in MS-DOS ANSI.sys):

```
<ESC>[6m
```

To set the underline color (this is reserved and as far as I can tell not actually used for anything):

```
<ESC>[58...m
```

This works exactly like the codes `38, 48` that are used to set foreground and
background color respectively.

To reset the underline color (also previously reserved and unused):

```
<ESC>[59m
```