From 6ca46fcf2cc1a3fe7e19a467fa45266bb7b7385f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Wirth <lukas@zed.dev>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2026 12:44:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] project: Normalize line endings in textual project search
 (#58628)

Release Notes:

- Fixed an issue with project search on windows where multiline string
searches would not work correctly due to newline differences
---
 crates/project/src/search.rs                  |  8 ++-
 .../tests/integration/project_tests.rs        | 68 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crates/project/src/search.rs b/crates/project/src/search.rs
index 27f7e18ecc..316bb673a9 100644
--- a/crates/project/src/search.rs
+++ b/crates/project/src/search.rs
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ impl SearchQuery {
         match_full_paths: bool,
         buffers: Option<Vec<Entity<Buffer>>>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
-        let query = query.to_string();
+        let mut query = query.to_string();
+        text::LineEnding::normalize(&mut query);
         if !case_sensitive && !query.is_ascii() {
             // AhoCorasickBuilder doesn't support case-insensitive search with unicode characters
             // Fallback to regex search as recommended by
@@ -189,7 +190,8 @@ impl SearchQuery {
         match_full_paths: bool,
         buffers: Option<Vec<Entity<Buffer>>>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
-        let query = query.to_string();
+        let mut query = query.to_string();
+        text::LineEnding::normalize(&mut query);
         let inner = SearchInputs {
             query: Arc::from(query.as_str()),
             files_to_include,
@@ -402,6 +404,7 @@ impl SearchQuery {
                 let mut text = String::new();
                 if query_str.contains('\n') {
                     reader.read_to_string(&mut text)?;
+                    text::LineEnding::normalize(&mut text);
                     Ok(search.is_match(&text))
                 } else {
                     let mut bytes_read = 0;
@@ -425,6 +428,7 @@ impl SearchQuery {
                 let mut text = String::new();
                 if *multiline {
                     reader.read_to_string(&mut text)?;
+                    text::LineEnding::normalize(&mut text);
                     Ok(regex.is_match(&text)?)
                 } else {
                     let mut bytes_read = 0;
diff --git a/crates/project/tests/integration/project_tests.rs b/crates/project/tests/integration/project_tests.rs
index 9d4e88c69c..af276a0aa4 100644
--- a/crates/project/tests/integration/project_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/project/tests/integration/project_tests.rs
@@ -7443,6 +7443,74 @@ async fn test_search(cx: &mut gpui::TestAppContext) {
     );
 }
 
+#[gpui::test]
+async fn test_search_multiline_crlf(cx: &mut gpui::TestAppContext) {
+    init_test(cx);
+
+    let fs = FakeFs::new(cx.executor());
+    fs.insert_tree(
+        path!("/dir"),
+        json!({
+            "crlf.rs": "alpha\r\nbeta\r\ngamma",
+            "lf.rs": "alpha\nbeta\ngamma",
+        }),
+    )
+    .await;
+    let project = Project::test(fs.clone(), [path!("/dir").as_ref()], cx).await;
+
+    // A query with CRLF line endings should match buffers regardless of their
+    // on-disk line endings (buffers always store normalized `\n`).
+    assert_eq!(
+        search(
+            &project,
+            SearchQuery::text(
+                "alpha\r\nbeta",
+                false,
+                true,
+                false,
+                Default::default(),
+                Default::default(),
+                false,
+                None,
+            )
+            .unwrap(),
+            cx
+        )
+        .await
+        .unwrap(),
+        HashMap::from_iter([
+            (path!("dir/crlf.rs").to_string(), vec![0..10]),
+            (path!("dir/lf.rs").to_string(), vec![0..10]),
+        ])
+    );
+
+    // The reverse: a query with LF line endings should match a file that is
+    // stored with CRLF line endings on disk.
+    assert_eq!(
+        search(
+            &project,
+            SearchQuery::text(
+                "alpha\nbeta",
+                false,
+                true,
+                false,
+                Default::default(),
+                Default::default(),
+                false,
+                None,
+            )
+            .unwrap(),
+            cx
+        )
+        .await
+        .unwrap(),
+        HashMap::from_iter([
+            (path!("dir/crlf.rs").to_string(), vec![0..10]),
+            (path!("dir/lf.rs").to_string(), vec![0..10]),
+        ])
+    );
+}
+
 #[gpui::test]
 async fn test_search_with_inclusions(cx: &mut gpui::TestAppContext) {
     init_test(cx);