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?