Colored and styled underlines#
kitty supports colored and styled (wavy) underlines. This is of particular use in terminal based text 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 (CSI codes)
To set the underline style:
<ESC>[4:0m # no underline
<ESC>[4:1m # straight underline
<ESC>[4:2m # double underline
<ESC>[4:3m # curly underline
<ESC>[4:4m # dotted underline
<ESC>[4:5m # dashed underline
<ESC>[4m # straight underline (for backwards compat)
<ESC>[24m # no underline (for backwards compat)
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
The underline color must remain the same under reverse video, if it has a color, if not, it should follow the foreground color.
To detect support for this feature in a terminal emulator, query the terminfo
database for the Su
boolean capability.