Re: [BUG] Regression: org-duration fails to support duration ranges since Org 9.0.6

[Guido Stevens]

Thanks for looking into this, Ihor.

On 9/22/24 09:56, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> > 2. Set estimate "1d-2d" on a task (C-c C-x e)
>
> At this point, using emacs -Q, I am getting
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid duration format: \"1d-2d\"")
>    error("Invalid duration format: %S" "1d-2d")
>
> In other words, such ranges are not supported in Effort property.
>
> I am not sure what Doom does so that you are not getting that error.

My bad. Invalid reproduction. My local patch for org-duration-to-minutes 
must've been active when doing that, because org-duration-to-minutes is 
called by org-set-effort to validate the new input value.

> As a workaround, I suggest using some other property for your effort
> estimates. Then, est+ summary in column view will work without errors.

Thanks, I have done just that now.

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