2020-11-23 origin of dot files

I've been wading through the morass of how vimwiki figures what to do with a URL. I wanted to figure out how to make vimwiki load a remote file into a vim editor. Somehow I wound up on this page:

A lesson in shortcuts

A good example of how early seemingly inconsequential flubs can yield unforseen pain down the road. I think that is also true of people and their poor choices in youth, and in pretty much the same way.