Links to files starting with dot break

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Apparently Obsidian doesn’t support dotfiles / dot files / hidden files / files starting with a period ..

But it still tries to, and doesn’t inform the user that it can’t. Please fix the error message and behaviour, because these are surely not intended:

  • if I have an absolute link [absolute link](.markdownlint.jsonc) and click on it, it creates a file called .markdownlint.jsonc.md, which is still unreachable by Obsidian
  • if I have a relative link [relative link](./.markdownlint.jsonc) and click on it, it says File names cannot end with a dot or a space. which is a wrong diagnosis here
  • both links look like regular unresolved links, and say .markdownlint.jsonc" is not created yet. Click to create., which should be unsupported
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