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How to turn confirmation off?

To turn off confirmation temporarily (the windows that pop up asking if
you're sure you want to perform the action you just selected), select the
"Confirmation Off" entry in the Dash submenu.

To turn off confirmation permanently, add a line to your ~/.dashrc file
(create one using emacs, if you don't have one already) like so:

	*verify: False

However, this does not change the text on the menu, nor the default
action, which is to turn verify off when you select it, so if you want the
menus to be consistent with the "verify" resource that you just set, you
need to add another line like so:

	*Menu.userItems:             item verify: "Confirmation On" [dash/20] \
			       	     -verify toggleVerify("Confirmation Off");

This replaces the existing item (called "verify") with your own version.

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