Show HN: Toast, a beautiful by default in terminal IDE

toast toast is a beautiful developer environment right in your terminal. vim, nvim, and emacs have you build your editor from scratch, while toast ships with managed LSPs, an integrated file tree, multiple file tabs, and themes out of the box. toast is for the developer who wants to stay in their terminal without spending hours getting it up to snuff. ⚠️ This project is in early development, you may encounter bugs. ⚠️ ⚠️ This project is in early development, you may encounter bugs. ⚠️ Quick Install brew install paradise-runner/tap/toast Features Multi-tab editing with unsaved-changes indicators, mouse-close buttons, and quit confirmation Syntax highlighting via tree-sitter (Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, CSS, HTML, YAML, Bash, Markdown) Managed language servers — Toast offers to install missing servers for Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Markdown (harper), with an extensible config for other languages Spell checking — misspelled words in Markdown and plain-text files are underlined in the theme's diagnostic color via harper Go to definition — hold Ctrl and hover to underline symbols with a target, then Ctrl-click to jump to the exact definition File tree sidebar with git status, ignored-file dimming, create/delete actions, file watching, and draggable resizing Project-wide search powered by rg (ripgrep) In-file find/replace with next/previous navigation, match-case, and whole-word options Command palette — Ctrl+Shift+P fuzzy search over every action, with keybinding hints, live toggle state, MRU ordering, and a status-bar confirmation flash Markdown preview for .md, .markdown, and .mdx files Theme system — built-in system (derived from terminal colors at runtime), toast-dark, and toast-light, plus a VSCode theme importer Auto-save — dirty files are written to disk after a configurable inactivity delay (default 300 ms), with an optional manual-save mode Configurable via ~/.config/toast/config.json Installation Homebrew (macOS) brew install paradise-runner/tap/toast Download a release Grab a zip for your platform from the releases page, unzip it, and place the binary on your $PATH: # example for Apple Silicon curl -Lo toast.zip https://github.com/paradise-runner/toast/releases/latest/download/toast-darwin-arm64.zip unzip toast.zip install -m755 toast-darwin-arm64 /usr/local/bin/toast Standalone macOS app ⚠️ Experimental: this bundles toast inside a libghostty terminal window and has more bugs than the terminal version. The TUI — Homebrew or the release binary above — is the primary, best-tested way to run toast. ⚠️ Experimental: this bundles toast inside a libghostty terminal window and has more bugs than the terminal version. The TUI — Homebrew or the release binary above — is the primary, best-tested way to run toast. Prefer a native app over the terminal? Each release also ships Toast.app — a complete desktop app with its own terminal window (libghostty), native menu bar, and dock icon. No terminal, Homebrew, or Go required. Grab the zip for your Mac from the releases page: toast-app-darwin-arm64.zip for Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4), toast-app-darwin-amd64.zip for Intel. Unzip it and drag Toast.app into your Applications folder. curl -LO https://github.com/paradise-runner/toast/releases/latest/download/toast-app-darwin-arm64.zip unzip toast-app-darwin-arm64.zip mv Toast.app /Applications/ First launch: the app is not code-signed or notarized yet, so macOS Gatekeeper will block a plain double-click. Right-click Toast.app in Finder and choose Open, then Open again — it launches fine from then on. Or clear the quarantine flag once: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Toast.app First launch: the app is not code-signed or notarized yet, so macOS Gatekeeper will block a plain double-click. Right-click Toast.app in Finder and choose Open, then Open again — it launches fine from then on. Or clear the quarantine flag once: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Toast.app open -a Toast ~/src/foo.go open -a Toast ~/src/myproject Build from source Requires Go 1.25.2+. git clone https://github.com/paradise-runner/toast cd toast make build # binary written to bin/toast Usage toast # open current directory toast path/to/dir # open a specific directory toast path/to/file # open a file (auto-detects git root) toast new/file.go # open a new file buffer if the parent directory exists toast --help toast --version Keybindings All keybindings can be remapped in ~/.config/toast/config.json (see Configuration). Configuration Toast reads ~/.config/toast/config.json on startup. Missing keys fall back to defaults. { "theme": "toast-dark", "editor": { "tab_width": 4, "auto_indent": true, "trim_trailing_whitespace_on_save": true, "insert_final_newline_on_save": true, "auto_save": "auto", "auto_save_delay_ms": 300, "bottom_padding": 3 }, "sidebar": { "visible": true, "width": 30, "confirm_delete": true, "file_icons": { "enabled": true, "color_mode": "accent" } }, "ignored_patterns": [".git", "node_modules", "__pycache__", ".DS_Store"] } auto_save selects the save mode: "auto" (default) writes dirty buffers to disk after auto_save_delay_ms milliseconds of inactivity, while "manual" requires an explicit save (ctrl+s / super+s). Keybindings All default keybindings can be overridden with the keybindings object. Each action accepts a list of key strings (supports ctrl, alt, shift, super modifiers). An empty list unbinds the action. { "keybindings": { "save": ["ctrl+s"], "quick_open": ["ctrl+o"], "next_tab": ["ctrl+tab"], "prev_tab": ["ctrl+shift+tab"], "quit": [] } } Available actions: quit, toggle_sidebar, save, new_file, close_tab, undo, redo, next_tab, prev_tab, search, find_replace, quick_open, command_palette, theme_picker, go_to_line, go_to_definition, toggle_focus, markdown_preview, show_hover, trigger_completion. Omit lsp to use Toast's managed defaults for Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Markdown; set "lsp": {} to disable all language servers. { "lsp": { "zig": { "command": "zls", "args": [], "extensions": [".zig"] } } } Themes Built-in themes: system, toast-dark, toast-light. Custom themes live in ~/.config/toast/themes/. Import a VSCode theme: toast migrate-theme vscode path/to/theme.json # writes ~/.config/toast/themes/ .json Then set "theme": " " in your config. Feedback & Issues Found a bug or have a feature request? We'd love to hear from you! Please open an issue on GitHub with as much detail as possible. Your feedback helps make Toast better. Development make build # compile make run # go run ./cmd/toast . make test # go test ./... make test-integration # run opt-in Ghostty/tmux terminal integration tests make test-integration-update # refresh golden screenshots