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From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Cc: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Effort entry and confusing effort estimates
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 09:10:21 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1305210908420.77245@tbetbambyn.ybpny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4h0ehw1.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>

Hi Bastien,

On Tue, 21 May 2013, Bastien wrote:

> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> But I'm still confused what 'org-set-effort' expects/interprets 
>> compared to 'org-clock-modify-effort-estimate'. Any clarification 
>> will be much appreciated.
>
> `org-set-effort' allows you to _set_ the effort value.
>
> `org-clock-modify-effort-estimate' allows you to either set the 
> effort value (e.g. if you enter 1:30, the old value will be 
> replaced by this one) or to increment/decrement the effort value 
> by using +mm or +n[hdwmy] -- e.g. entering +1d will increment the 
> current value by 1 day.  "1 day" is interpreted depending on 
> `org-effort-durations', which see.

Thanks for the explanation. I guess I'm confused why one 
formats/converts/checks the input and the other does not. I guess 
this doesn't imply that org-set-effort does anything different, it 
really is just a pure subset of org-clock-modify-effort-estimate.

Thanks,

   -k.

     prev parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-21 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-21  0:32 Effort entry and confusing effort estimates Ken Mankoff
2013-05-21  3:22 ` Ken Mankoff
2013-05-21 10:39   ` Bastien
2013-05-21 11:52     ` Lawrence Mitchell
2013-05-21 12:22       ` Bastien
2013-05-28 11:13         ` [PATCH] Remove org-time-clocksum-use-effort-durations Lawrence Mitchell
2013-05-21 13:10     ` Ken Mankoff [this message]

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