[Toybox] How can I contribute

[Andrew Ilijic]

Thank you Rob,

I'll start by taking a look at the `ls` command and let you know how I make out.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 6:27 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>
> On 10/14/19 3:07 PM, Denys Nykula wrote:
> >> saw one of the Toybox talks and wanted to see how I could contribute
> >
> > Completing landley.net/toybox/cleanup.html on toys/pending/{dhcp,route}.c
> > to help them out of pending would be most demanded I think.
>
> That's kind of a high bar, though. :)
>
> Right now toys/posix/ls.c only puts one space between filenames in -C or -x mode
> (which is the default output), and I have a todo item to increase that to 2
> spaces (which is what other implementations do). The reason is I misunderstood
> how unicode worked and it turns out combining characters don't come _after_ the
> character they combine with but before, which means a filename that ends with a
> combining character will attach to the space after the filename, and thus make
> two filenames visually run together unless you have a two space gap. The loop
> that needs adjusting is probably the one starting around line 401, I don't
> _think_ tests/ls.test cares (since it has to pass with TEST_HOST and the host
> version generally uses different spacing anyway), but make sure that still passes.
>
> Or, I just taught xargs to ignore -P but it would be nice if somebody actually
> implemented that instead of ignoring it.
>
> Rob