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fix(core): resolve Lang and Transform in section order, not map order - #1143

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What's broken

When more than one config section matches a file, the resolved Lang and Transform are picked at random, and can differ between two files in the same run.

With [*] Lang = en and [*.md] Lang = ja, calling NewFile on the same .md path 200 times gave en 169 times and ja 31 times. Linting 40 identical .md files in one invocation sent en for 36 of them and ja for 6.

Why

Both loops in NewFile range over a map, and Go randomises map iteration, so break on the first match picks an arbitrary winner per call.

Lang is not cosmetic here: internal/nlp/prose.go sends it into the POS-tagging request, and internal/nlp/provider.go branches on Lang != "en" to decide whether to bypass the English-only segmenter.

The fix

The same function already solves this twenty lines above, for styles and rule levels, by walking config.RuleKeys in written order so a later section wins. That loop carries the comment referring to #965. These two loops now do the same, using the compiled patterns already in config.SecToPat instead of recompiling a glob for every file.

Two details worth calling out:

[*] is set through globalOpts and deliberately excluded from RuleKeys and SecToPat, so the global value is seeded before the loop and any matching section overrides it.

This changes the semantics from first-match-in-random-order to last-match-in-written-order. That is the point: it makes the behaviour match what the rule loop already documents, and the old order was never well defined.

Verification

internal/core/file_test.go covers a path matched by several sections, asserting the last one wins, plus the [*] fallback. It passes 20 out of 20 with -count=20. With the change reverted it fails on all 20, reporting expected Lang "it" ... got "en". go test ./internal/... is green, including the e2e package.

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### [`v3.18.0`](https://github.com/vale-cli/vale/releases/tag/v3.18.0)

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[MDX](https://docs.vale.sh/formats/mdx) is now parsed natively — `mdx2vast` is no longer required. This release also adds support for four new markup formats: [Typst](https://docs.vale.sh/formats/typst) (through the new [`typst2vast`](https://github.com/jdkato/typst2vast) program), [Quarto](https://docs.vale.sh/formats/quarto), [MyST](https://docs.vale.sh/formats/myst), and [QDoc](https://docs.vale.sh/formats/qdoc). R Markdown now works out of the box, and comment extraction now covers Lua, PHP, Haskell, R, Perl, and SCSS.

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#### Changelog

- [`6c382ec`](vale-cli/vale@6c382ecd) fix: stop element-scoped rules from matching sentence fragments ([#&#8203;1150](vale-cli/vale#1150))
- [`9b9594d`](vale-cli/vale@9b9594d0) fix: don't treat a word before a code span as inline markup ([#&#8203;1147](vale-cli/vale#1147))
- [`2b159ab`](vale-cli/vale@2b159ab6) fix: stop corrupting suggestions containing 'PIPE'
- [`390dda6`](vale-cli/vale@390dda6e) fix: compile glob patterns once at construction ([#&#8203;1145](vale-cli/vale#1145))
- [`fcf0740`](vale-cli/vale@fcf07409) fix(ls-metrics): prevent panic on empty directory ([#&#8203;1144](vale-cli/vale#1144))
- [`dd09d42`](vale-cli/vale@dd09d428) fix(core): resolve Lang and Transform in section order, not map order ([#&#8203;1143](vale-cli/vale#1143))
- [`85ee608`](vale-cli/vale@85ee6088) fix(dita): report dita's own error output instead of just the exit status ([#&#8203;1141](vale-cli/vale#1141))
- [`fd8c2e0`](vale-cli/vale@fd8c2e02) refactor: satisfy revive's empty-block
- [`2f65b83`](vale-cli/vale@2f65b836) fix: close display math on any line ending with `$$` ([#&#8203;1148](vale-cli/vale#1148))
- [`e587329`](vale-cli/vale@e5873290) fix(lint): treat an HTML comment as a text boundary outside inline elements ([#&#8203;1140](vale-cli/vale#1140))
- [`4691bd3`](vale-cli/vale@4691bd36) docs: add new spotlight
- [`37cb109`](vale-cli/vale@37cb109b) feat: add `--plain-progress`
- [`12fbbd7`](vale-cli/vale@12fbbd7f) feat: log each package when sync isn't writing to a terminal
- [`9a1a16c`](vale-cli/vale@9a1a16c3) fix: mark a QDoc image that has no alt text, and publish inline ones
- [`c154ac2`](vale-cli/vale@c154ac2a) Keep the extracted text one line per source line ([#&#8203;1135](vale-cli/vale#1135))
- [`8fe9804`](vale-cli/vale@8fe98044) refactor: CLI clean up and subcommand help
- [`ae6d749`](vale-cli/vale@ae6d7496) feat: add `vale test`
- [`e5a0286`](vale-cli/vale@e5a0286a) fix: read a shebang as a POSIX path
- [`eec2f59`](vale-cli/vale@eec2f59a) fix: read a .qdocinc as the include it is, and keep meta out of prose
- [`7618d04`](vale-cli/vale@7618d044) fix: only hand the Docutils source to a Python interpreter
- [`b596b0d`](vale-cli/vale@b596b0dc) fix: stop a string run's helper processes the way a file run does
- [`f3f3402`](vale-cli/vale@f3f34021) fix: keep `vale off` working when QDoc prose is escaped
- [`54efd3b`](vale-cli/vale@54efd3bb) fix: escape QDoc markup
- [`5666297`](vale-cli/vale@5666297b) fix: treat a snippet marker inside a QDoc comment as markup
- [`c2d1a55`](vale-cli/vale@c2d1a559) feat: add a meta scope for a document's machine-readable content
- [`33e4012`](vale-cli/vale@33e40124) fix: close QDoc's code blocks on the right command, and scope its divs
- [`5ae4867`](vale-cli/vale@5ae48670) fix: read only `/*!` as QDoc, and cover commands
- [`e60b5bc`](vale-cli/vale@e60b5bc3) fix: keep a rule's level in the section that set it
- [`c1e2fa0`](vale-cli/vale@c1e2fa01) fix: honor IgnoredScopes when a markup format is mapped onto source
- [`85c1343`](vale-cli/vale@85c13436) fix: place a match inside a block that inline markup rewrote
- [`b47ccb0`](vale-cli/vale@b47ccb06) fix: don't mask an autolink's URL twice
- [`65f5687`](vale-cli/vale@65f5687f) fix: skip `$…$` inline math
- [`b3bade4`](vale-cli/vale@b3bade4b) fix: lint a tight list item's own text as its own block
- [`4a6b7cf`](vale-cli/vale@4a6b7cfd) Don't lint a shebang as a comment ([#&#8203;1134](vale-cli/vale#1134))
- [`77179c0`](vale-cli/vale@77179c0a) fix: report spans against the file's actual bytes
- [`7f429e3`](vale-cli/vale@7f429e31) test: pin issue 1007's frontmatter and blockquote scenarios
- [`b049e35`](vale-cli/vale@b049e35f) feat: support the .scss extension
- [`b678b8d`](vale-cli/vale@b678b8d9) test: add QML case
- [`e82432d`](vale-cli/vale@e82432d7) feat: extract Lua, PHP, Haskell, R, and Perl comments with tree-sitter
- [`0e2f8bf`](vale-cli/vale@0e2f8bf3) eat: support QML sources via qml = qdoc
- [`cc710aa`](vale-cli/vale@cc710aa2) fix: treat only block comments as QDoc documentation
- [`bd1f33a`](vale-cli/vale@bd1f33a6) ci: install typst2vast, drop mdx2vast
- [`9708be6`](vale-cli/vale@9708be61) feat: support Typst
- [`15115bf`](vale-cli/vale@15115bfb) fix: place a rewritten block by its longest word, not its last
- [`5c91639`](vale-cli/vale@5c916393) fix: skip a repeated match's prior occurrences by count, not by masking
- [`db8c83c`](vale-cli/vale@db8c83cf) feat: support QDoc
- [`fca7b79`](vale-cli/vale@fca7b79b) feat: support Quarto
- [`286fc59`](vale-cli/vale@286fc59a) feat: parse MDX natively, dropping mdx2vast
- [`fedaf20`](vale-cli/vale@fedaf204) feat: support MyST
- [`eec788d`](vale-cli/vale@eec788d8) fix: read the character actually beside a match for inline code
- [`590278e`](vale-cli/vale@590278e5) feat: lint R Markdown out of the box
- [`4d8e228`](vale-cli/vale@4d8e2289) fix: strip tab indentation from block comments ([#&#8203;1131](vale-cli/vale#1131))
- [`02fb654`](vale-cli/vale@02fb6547) fix: switch on what every term of a chained scope needs
- [`f011cb0`](vale-cli/vale@f011cb02) fix: keep 'scope: paragraph' out of headings, tables, lists, and blockquotes

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