diff --git a/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherTests.cs b/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherTests.cs
index a7c107c2..277b6ee1 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherTests.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherTests.cs
@@ -123,6 +123,33 @@ public async Task ASnapshotBeforeAVerbatimStringOpeningOnAnEscapedQuoteIsStillFo
     const string q3 = "\"\"\"";
     const string q4 = "\"\"\"\"";
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// A CRLF file holding a literal whose own lines are LF. The anchor is normalised to the
+    /// file's dominant ending before the search, which is right for writing and wrong for
+    /// matching: the literal is the same expression and compared byte for byte it is not, so the
+    /// snapshot could not be patched at all.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Test]
+    public async Task AnAnchorMatchesAcrossMixedLineEndings()
+    {
+        var literal = "\"\"\"\n        old\n        \"\"\"";
+        var source =
+            "class Tests\r\n" +
+            "{\r\n" +
+            "    async Task Test()\r\n" +
+            "    {\r\n" +
+            $"        await Snapshot({literal});\r\n" +
+            "    }\r\n" +
+            "}";
+
+        var status = TryApply(source, 5, InlinePatchMode.Set, literal, "new", out var newSource, out var reason);
+
+        await Assert.That(status).IsEqualTo(PatchStatus.Applied);
+        await Assert.That(reason).IsEmpty();
+        await Assert.That(newSource).Contains("new");
+        await Assert.That(newSource).DoesNotContain("old");
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// A comment between the argument and the closing paren. A line comment's span includes the
     /// newline that ends it, so trimming trailing whitespace first ate that newline and the
diff --git a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/InlinePatcher.cs b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/InlinePatcher.cs
index 9eef3481..449cd743 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/InlinePatcher.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/InlinePatcher.cs
@@ -296,13 +296,34 @@ readonly struct ExpectedArgument(int start, int end, int listStart, bool blocked
         public bool IsAbsent => Start == End;
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// True when the argument is character for character the given expression.
+        /// True when the argument is the given expression, character for character or once both
+        /// have had their newlines normalised.
+        /// <para>
+        /// The needle arrives normalised to the file's dominant line ending, which is the right
+        /// thing to write but the wrong thing to search for: a literal whose own lines use the
+        /// other ending is the same expression and did not match, so the snapshot could not be
+        /// patched at all. Mixed endings inside one file are ordinary - a merge, an editor that
+        /// only fixes what it touches, a generator.
+        /// </para>
         /// </summary>
-        public bool Matches(string source, string expression) =>
-            !IsAbsent &&
-            !BlockedByName &&
-            End - Start == expression.Length &&
-            string.CompareOrdinal(source, Start, expression, 0, expression.Length) == 0;
+        public bool Matches(string source, string expression)
+        {
+            if (IsAbsent ||
+                BlockedByName)
+            {
+                return false;
+            }
+
+            if (End - Start == expression.Length &&
+                string.CompareOrdinal(source, Start, expression, 0, expression.Length) == 0)
+            {
+                return true;
+            }
+
+            var argument = source.Substring(Start, End - Start);
+            return SourceLanguage.NormalizeNewlines(argument) ==
+                   SourceLanguage.NormalizeNewlines(expression);
+        }
     }
 
     static bool TryReadArguments(string source, SourceScan scan, int openParen, out ExpectedArgument expected)