What does the the star or asterisk indicate in Ranger? What does the red star mean in the Ranger file navigator? ![Screenshot of directory listing with red star asterisk]( Result of running `ls -la` in same directory: drwxrwxr-x 2 philip philip 4096 Oct 18 23:45 . drwxrwxr-x 5 philip philip 4096 Oct 18 23:36 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 philip philip 82 Oct 18 23:44 john.cpp -rw-rw-r-- 1 philip philip 114 Oct 18 23:45 john.hpp -rw-rw-r-- 1 philip philip 105 Oct 18 23:09 johnpaul.cpp -rw-rw-r-- 1 philip philip 136 Oct 18 23:08 johnpaul.hpp -rw-rw-r-- 1 philip philip 82 Oct 18 23:06 paul.cpp -rw-rw-r-- 1 philip philip 115 Oct 18 23:04 paul.hpp

### Tags

> Tags are single characters which are displayed left of a filename. You can use tags however you want. Press `t` to toggle tags and `u`,`t` to remove any tags of the selection. The default tag is an Asterisk (`*`), but you can use any tag by typing `"`.

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_Taken from`LESS='+/TAGS' man ranger`_