6 files changed, 98 insertions, 57 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
index 8477c227bcc..8fa7f16de01 100644
--- a/lisp/files.el
+++ b/lisp/files.el
@@ -4110,6 +4110,52 @@ This function returns either:
 (declare-function map-merge-with "map" (type function &rest maps))
 (declare-function map-merge "map" (type &rest maps))
 
+(defun dir-locals--get-sort-score (node)
+  "Return a number used for sorting the definitions of dir locals.
+NODE is assumed to be a cons cell where the car is either a
+string or a symbol representing a mode name.
+
+If it is a mode then the the depth of the mode (ie, how many
+parents that mode has) will be returned.
+
+If it is a string then the length of the string plus 1000 will be
+returned.
+
+Otherwise it returns -1.
+
+That way the value can be used to sort the list such that deeper
+modes will be after the other modes.  This will be followed by
+directory entries in order of length.  If the entries are all
+applied in order then that means the more specific modes will
+  override the values specified by the earlier modes and directory
+variables will override modes."
+  (let ((key (car node)))
+    (cond ((null key) -1)
+          ((symbolp key)
+           (let ((mode key)
+                 (depth 0))
+             (while (setq mode (get mode 'derived-mode-parent))
+               (setq depth (1+ depth)))
+             depth))
+          ((stringp key)
+           (+ 1000 (length key)))
+          (t -2))))
+
+(defun dir-locals--sort-variables (variables)
+  "Sorts VARIABLES so that applying them in order has the right effect.
+The variables are compared by dir-locals--get-sort-score.
+Directory entries are then recursively sorted using the same
+criteria."
+  (setq variables (sort variables
+                        (lambda (a b)
+                          (< (dir-locals--get-sort-score a)
+                             (dir-locals--get-sort-score b)))))
+  (dolist (n variables)
+    (when (stringp (car n))
+      (setcdr n (dir-locals--sort-variables (cdr n)))))
+
+  variables)
+
 (defun dir-locals-read-from-dir (dir)
   "Load all variables files in DIR and register a new class and instance.
 DIR is the absolute name of a directory which must contain at
@@ -4147,6 +4193,7 @@ Return the new class name, which is a symbol named DIR."
                                     variables
                                     newvars))))))
       (setq success latest))
+    (setq variables (dir-locals--sort-variables variables))
     (dir-locals-set-class-variables class-name variables)
     (dir-locals-set-directory-class dir class-name success)
     class-name))
diff --git a/lisp/mail/smtpmail.el b/lisp/mail/smtpmail.el
index f31e0b45d20..05ef29a1141 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/smtpmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/smtpmail.el
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ don't define this value."
 
 (defcustom smtpmail-stream-type nil
   "Type of SMTP connections to use.
-This may be either nil (possibly upgraded to STARTTLS if possible),
-or `starttls' (refuse to send if STARTTLS isn't available), or `plain'
-\(never use STARTTLS), or `ssl' (to use TLS/SSL)."
+This may be either nil (upgrade with STARTTLS if possible),
+`starttls' (refuse to send if STARTTLS isn't available),
+`plain' (never use STARTTLS), or `ssl' (to use TLS/SSL)."
   :version "24.1"
   :group 'smtpmail
   :type '(choice (const :tag "Possibly upgrade to STARTTLS" nil)
diff --git a/lisp/nxml/nxml-mode.el b/lisp/nxml/nxml-mode.el
index 6f80912dd58..8da9f5ca287 100644
--- a/lisp/nxml/nxml-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/nxml/nxml-mode.el
@@ -2379,7 +2379,9 @@ With a prefix argument, inserts the character directly."
 (put 'nxml-char-ref 'evaporate t)
 
 (defun nxml-char-ref-display-extra (start end n)
-  (when nxml-char-ref-extra-display
+  (when (and ;; Displaying literal newline is unhelpful.
+         (not (eql n ?\n))
+         nxml-char-ref-extra-display)
     (let ((name (or (get-char-code-property n 'name)
                     (get-char-code-property n 'old-name)))
           (glyph-string (and nxml-char-ref-display-glyph-flag
diff --git a/lisp/nxml/nxml-rap.el b/lisp/nxml/nxml-rap.el
index 2bd758be3a5..21dbaded25a 100644
--- a/lisp/nxml/nxml-rap.el
+++ b/lisp/nxml/nxml-rap.el
@@ -35,35 +35,25 @@
 ;;
 ;; Our strategy is to keep track of just the problematic things.
 ;; Specifically, we keep track of all comments, CDATA sections and
-;; processing instructions in the instance.  We do this by marking all
-;; except the first character of these with a non-nil nxml-inside text
-;; property. The value of the nxml-inside property is comment,
-;; cdata-section or processing-instruction.  The first character does
-;; not have the nxml-inside property so we can find the beginning of
-;; the construct by looking for a change in a text property value
-;; (Emacs provides primitives for this).  We use text properties
-;; rather than overlays, since the implementation of overlays doesn't
-;; look like it scales to large numbers of overlays in a buffer.
-;;
-;; We don't in fact track all these constructs, but only track them in
-;; some initial part of the instance.
+;; processing instructions in the instance.  We do this by marking
+;; the first character of these with the generic string syntax by setting
+;; a 'syntax-table' text property in `sgml-syntax-propertize'.
 ;;
 ;; Thus to parse some random point in the file we first ensure that we
-;; have scanned up to that point.  Then we search backwards for a
-;; <. Then we check whether the < has an nxml-inside property. If it
-;; does we go backwards to first character that does not have an
-;; nxml-inside property (this character must be a <).  Then we start
-;; parsing forward from the < we have found.
+;; have scanned up to that point.  Then we search backwards for a <.
+;; Then we check whether the < has the generic string syntax.  If it
+;; does we go backwards to first character of the generic string (this
+;; character must be a <).  Then we start parsing forward from the <
+;; we have found.
 ;;
 ;; The prolog has to be parsed specially, so we also keep track of the
 ;; end of the prolog in `nxml-prolog-end'. The prolog is reparsed on
 ;; every change to the prolog.  This won't work well if people try to
 ;; edit huge internal subsets. Hopefully that will be rare.
 ;;
-;; We keep track of the changes by adding to the buffer's
-;; after-change-functions hook.  Scanning is also done as a
-;; prerequisite to fontification by adding to fontification-functions
-;; (in the same way as jit-lock).  This means that scanning for these
+;; We rely on the `syntax-propertize-function' machinery to keep track
+;; of the changes in the buffer.  Fontification also relies on correct
+;; `syntax-table' properties.  This means that scanning for these
 ;; constructs had better be quick.  Fortunately it is. Firstly, the
 ;; typical proportion of comments, CDATA sections and processing
 ;; instructions is small relative to other things.  Secondly, to scan
@@ -79,7 +69,15 @@
   "Integer giving position following end of the prolog.")
 
 (defsubst nxml-get-inside (pos)
-  (save-excursion (nth 8 (syntax-ppss pos))))
+  "Return non-nil if inside comment, CDATA, or PI."
+  (let ((ppss (save-excursion (syntax-ppss pos))))
+    (or
+     ;; Inside comment.
+     (nth 4 ppss)
+     ;; Inside "generic" string which is used for CDATA, and PI.
+     ;; "Normal" double and single quoted strings are used for
+     ;; attribute values.
+     (eq t (nth 3 ppss)))))
 
 (defun nxml-inside-end (pos)
   "Return the end of the inside region containing POS.
diff --git a/lisp/server.el b/lisp/server.el
index d8c7c313ef1..436a44a7e94 100644
--- a/lisp/server.el
+++ b/lisp/server.el
@@ -1650,7 +1650,14 @@ be a cons cell (LINENUMBER . COLUMNNUMBER)."
                               (frame-terminal))))
                 'nomini 'visible (selected-window))))
             (condition-case nil
-                (switch-to-buffer next-buffer)
+                ;; If the client specified a new buffer position,
+                ;; treat that as an explicit point-move command, and
+                ;; override switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point.
+                (let ((switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point
+                       (if filepos
+                           nil
+                         switch-to-buffer-preserve-window-point)))
+                  (switch-to-buffer next-buffer))
               ;; After all the above, we might still have ended up with
               ;; a minibuffer/dedicated-window (if there's no other).
               (error (pop-to-buffer next-buffer)))))))
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el b/lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el
index 9e3be99af14..6dc1b9e727e 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el
@@ -96,24 +96,20 @@ a DOCTYPE or an XML declaration."
 `text-mode-hook' is run first."
   :type 'hook)
 
-;; As long as Emacs's syntax can't be complemented with predicates to context
-;; sensitively confirm the syntax of characters, we have to live with this
-;; kludgy kind of tradeoff.
-(defvar sgml-specials '(?\")
+;; The official handling of "--" is complicated in SGML, and
+;; historically not well supported by browser HTML parsers.
+;; Recommendations for writing HTML comments is to use <!--...-->
+;; (where ... doesn't contain "--") to avoid the complications
+;; altogether (XML goes even further by requiring this in the spec).
+;; So there is probably no need to handle it "correctly".
+(defvar sgml-specials '(?\" ?\')
   "List of characters that have a special meaning for SGML mode.
 This list is used when first loading the `sgml-mode' library.
-The supported characters and potential disadvantages are:
+The supported characters are ?\\\", ?\\=', and ?-.
 
-  ?\\\" Makes \" in text start a string.
-  ?\\=' Makes \\=' in text start a string.
-  ?-    Makes -- in text start a comment.
-
-When only one of ?\\\" or ?\\=' are included, \"\\='\" or \\='\"\\=', as can be found in
-DTDs, start a string.  To partially avoid this problem this also makes these
-self insert as named entities depending on `sgml-quick-keys'.
-
-Including ?- has the problem of affecting dashes that have nothing to do
-with comments, so we normally turn it off.")
+Including ?- makes double dashes into comment delimiters, but
+they are really only supposed to delimit comments within DTD
+definitions.  So we normally turn it off.")
 
 (defvar sgml-quick-keys nil
   "Use <, >, &, /, SPC and `sgml-specials' keys \"electrically\" when non-nil.
@@ -343,21 +339,12 @@ Any terminating `>' or `/' is not matched.")
      ("--[ \t\n]*\\(>\\)" (1 "> b"))
      ("\\(<\\)[?!]" (1 (prog1 "|>"
                          (sgml-syntax-propertize-inside end))))
-     ;; Double quotes outside of tags should not introduce strings which end up
-     ;; hiding tags.  We used to test every double quote and mark it as "."
-     ;; if it's outside of tags, but there are too many double quotes and
-     ;; the resulting number of calls to syntax-ppss made it too slow
-     ;; (bug#33887), so we're now careful to leave alone any pair
-     ;; of quotes that doesn't hold a < or > char, which is the vast majority.
-     ("\\(\"\\)[^\"<>]*[<>\"]"
-      (1 (unless (eq ?\" (char-before))
-           ;; Be careful to call `syntax-ppss' on a position before the one
-           ;; we're going to change, so as not to need to flush the data we
-           ;; just computed.
-           (if (prog1 (zerop (car (syntax-ppss (match-beginning 0))))
-                 (goto-char (1- (match-end 0))))
-               (string-to-syntax ".")))))
-     )))
+     ;; Quotes outside of tags should not introduce strings.
+     ;; Be careful to call `syntax-ppss' on a position before the one we're
+     ;; going to change, so as not to need to flush the data we just computed.
+     ("[\"']" (0 (if (prog1 (zerop (car (syntax-ppss (match-beginning 0))))
+                       (goto-char (match-end 0)))
+                     (string-to-syntax ".")))))))
 
 (defun sgml-syntax-propertize (start end)
   "Syntactic keywords for `sgml-mode'."