# Toast: a terminal IDE that ships ready to use

> A terminal editor that arrives with LSPs, a file tree, tabs, and themes already working, no config marathon required.
- Title: Toast: a terminal IDE that ships ready to use · GitHub
- Summary: A terminal editor that arrives with LSPs, a file tree, tabs, and themes already working, no config marathon required. Toast trades the endless dotfile…
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- Source: GitHub — https://github.com/paradise-runner/toast
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- Topics: terminal, developer tools, text editors, golang, open source, technology, startups
## A terminal IDE, batteries included
Toast is a developer environment that lives in your terminal and arrives already set up. No plugin archaeology, no weekend spent assembling an editor.

> toast is for the developer who wants to stay in their terminal without spending hours getting it up to snuff.
## Vim makes you build it
Vim, Neovim, and Emacs hand you a foundation and expect you to construct the rest. Toast ships managed LSPs, a file tree, tabs, and themes on day one.
## It is early, and buggy
The project warns up front that it is in early development and you will hit bugs. Useful to know before you make it your daily driver.

> ⚠️ This project is in early development, you may encounter bugs. ⚠️
## No AI, no telemetry
Toast puts itself in a quadrant no one else occupies: it refuses AI features and tracking like vim and emacs do, but keeps the file tree and mouse support that VSCode and Zed have.
## The editor actually feels finished
Tree-sitter highlighting for ten languages, multi-tab editing with unsaved indicators, find and replace, go to definition on Ctrl-click, and Markdown preview.
## Language servers install themselves
Toast offers to install missing servers for Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Markdown. Spell check in Markdown files runs through harper and underlines misses.

> Toast offers to install missing servers
## Searching a whole project
Project-wide search runs on ripgrep. The sidebar shows git status, dims ignored files, watches for changes on disk, and drags to resize.
## Ctrl+Shift+P for everything
The command palette fuzzy-searches every action, shows keybinding hints and live toggle state, and orders by what you used most recently.
## Install it in one line
brew install paradise-runner/tap/toast, or grab a release binary and drop it on your PATH. Building from source needs Go 1.25.2 and a make build.
## One JSON file tunes it
~/.config/toast/config.json sets theme, tab width, auto-save delay, sidebar width, and ignored patterns. Every keybinding is remappable, and you can import a VSCode theme.

> Missing keys fall back to defaults.
## Key takeaway

Toast trades the endless dotfile project for a terminal editor that is usable the minute you install it, at the cost of being early and occasionally buggy.