gVim displays every file with an asterisk on the right (and bold)?

Question

It looks like this:

I\'m not sure but I think it started to happen when I reinstalled LAMP (Ubuntu).

All the files used to look like the ones below

Answer 1

That looks like NERDTree. Maybe there is a NERDTree setting regarding it.

Suggestions:

1. See if the permissions or settings (do they have chmod +x) are different on the files that show an asterisk versus the ones that do not. Have you noticed a pattern between which files are bold and asterisk'd?

Answer 2

NERDTree uses the asterisk to indicate an item is executable, I believe. At least for me, it shows up on all my .bat and .exe files.