What does the the star or asterisk indicate in Ranger?

Question

What does the red star mean in the Ranger file navigator?

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

Answer 1

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 "<tagname>.

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Taken from LESS='+/TAGS' man ranger