Re: inconsistency with :eval yes in orgmode.org and gnu.org manuals for org 9.6, 9.5?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Dan Drake <dan.drake@gmail.com> writes:

> It seems like ":eval yes" was removed some time ago -- see
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/3570/19526.
>
> Did that get re-added? It seems like it was replaced by the
> org-confirm-babel-evaluate mechanism --
> https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/emacs/manual/html_node/org/Code-Evaluation-Security.html.

It did not really get removed.
But its meaning indeed changed slightly, despite what the current manual
says.

:eval yes evaluates the code blocks, but not unconditionally. It still
obeys org-confirm-babel-evaluate.

Does the attached patch clarify the situation?

>From 3867672d6b38b3c0ccba0b5da8e4a3adb7f111b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-Id: 
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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:02:50 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] org-manual: Clarify that :eval yes obeys
 `org-confirm-babel-evaluate'

* doc/org-manual.org (Limit code block evaluation): Clarify :eval yes
value.

Reported-by: Dan Drake <dan.drake@gmail.com>
Link: 
CAKqbAeFRGDzQQQkXHKvDPtgM7NYybWgxpJj3yoRKnuD2bSwyVw@mail.gmail.com">https://orgmode.org/list/CAKqbAeFRGDzQQQkXHKvDPtgM7NYybWgxpJj3yoRKnuD2bSwyVw@mail.gmail.com
---
 doc/org-manual.org | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/org-manual.org b/doc/org-manual.org
index 6a625b42a..1c97d6aa8 100644
--- a/doc/org-manual.org
+++ b/doc/org-manual.org
@@ -18123,7 +18123,8 @@ *** Limit code block evaluation
 
 - =yes= ::
 
-  Org always evaluates the source code without asking permission.
+  Org evaluates the source code, possibly asking permission according
+  to ~org-confirm-babel-evaluate~.
 
 - =never= or =no= ::
 
-- 
2.39.1

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