Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Re: netrw plugin: asterisk after filename

Sylvia Ganush, Tue 2013-04-30 @ 20:15:20+0200:
> It would appear that Mac OS X sets executable bits to all files when I
> plug in my FAT32-formatted USB stick. Must be an OS issue, nothing Vim
> or netrw related.

I don't think FAT32 supports file mode bits at all (or, at least not the
"standard" Unix ones). So it's likely not a flaw in OS X, but simply a
limitation of the file system.

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