Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Re: netrw plugin: asterisk after filename

On 30 Apr 2013, at 17:56, Charles Campbell <Charles.E.Campbell@nasa.gov> wrote:

> Sylvia Ganush wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> A quick question, probably with an obvious answer, but I couldn't
>> find one either in the manual or on the Internet.
>>
>> In directory listing view the netrw plugin appends an asterisk to
>> filenames. What does it mean?
>>
> There are several such appendages...
>
> see :help netrw-getftype

Merci, Charles.

Hmm... * = executable? What's executable about foobar.pdf* or foobar.txt*? I can't understand.

Sylvia

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