Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Re: netrw plugin: asterisk after filename

Sylvia Ganush, Tue 2013-04-30 @ 18:08:45+0200:
> Hmm... * = executable? What's executable about foobar.pdf* or
> foobar.txt*? I can't understand.

Those files must have the "executable" bit set in your file system, and
netrw is just picking up on that.

As for why the executable bit is set on non-executable files, ask
whatever program stored those files in the first place.

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