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I sync my org files via Dropbox. Occasionally, Dropbox will bring in changes into a file whose buffer I've already modified. I can diff the buffer and the file on disk with diff-buffer-with-file; but then what?

Theoretically it's a diff minor mode file, so I should be able to use diff functions such as (diff-apply-hunk), but in practice a get an elisp stack trace.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a better approach?

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  • Sounds like a bug. So I'd recommend M-x report-emacs-bug.
    – Stefan
    May 18, 2020 at 5:11
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    As a workaround (or not, as the case may be), see whether you have better success with the ediff variant, which is ediff-current-file.
    – phils
    May 18, 2020 at 6:00

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