In short it’s a design choice paying homage to some other books, as well as to make the reading experience less distracting. He has a whole page explaining here, https://practicaltypography.com/how-to-use.html

It's a pretty interesting approach to the website and there's some features I never would have discovered on my own, but the author's reasoning seems pretty poor. The premise being that multi-line stretches of underlined text are difficult to read, therefore link-text (typically 1-3 words) should not be underlined.

It's also quite ironic that the author's argument against ligatures in programming fonts is that the simple substitution doesn't respect semantic difference, whilst using emphasis to signify that there is a link present

...and then he decided to put his name in small caps under the ligature article, and that one isn't a link.

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Re: your edit, Yeah it can! Set up a folder, say 'vim' for your example, and then inside of that folder you have a '.vim' file and a '.config/nvim' file.

Then when you run `stow vim` from the parent of the original 'vim' folder it will symlink everything in there to ~.

You can even have more folders that have a '.config/foobar' inside of them, and when you stow those it will all work itself out nicely!

Edit: You can find examples of this in my dotfiles https://github.com/AnthonyWharton/dotfiles/ (I use stow if you didn't guess :P). For example look at the 'i3' folder and the 'polybar' folder, they both add things to '~/.config '