diff --git a/ansi/kmp.rkt b/ansi/kmp.rkt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1bde107
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansi/kmp.rkt
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+#lang racket/base
+;; Knuth-Morris-Pratt string & rope search.
+
+(provide search-generator
+         search-string
+         search-rope)
+
+(require "rope.rkt")
+(require racket/generator)
+
+(define (table pattern)
+  (define t (make-vector (- (string-length pattern) 1)))
+  (vector-set! t 0 0)
+  (let loop ((pos 1) (candidate 0))
+    (cond
+     [(= pos (- (string-length pattern) 1))
+      t]
+     [(equal? (string-ref pattern pos)
+              (string-ref pattern candidate))
+      (vector-set! t pos (+ candidate 1))
+      (loop (+ pos 1)
+            (+ candidate 1))]
+     [(> candidate 0)
+      (loop pos
+            (vector-ref t candidate))]
+     [else
+      (vector-set! t pos 0)
+      (loop (+ pos 1)
+            0)])))
+
+;; String (Generator Char) -> (Option Index)
+(define (search-generator needle haystack)
+  (define t (table needle))
+  (define cache #f)
+  (define (advance!)
+    (define next (haystack))
+    (set! cache (and (char? next) next)))
+  (advance!)
+  (let loop ((m 0) (i 0))
+    (cond
+     [(not cache)
+      #f]
+     [(equal? (string-ref needle i) cache)
+      (if (= i (- (string-length needle) 1))
+          m
+          (begin (advance!)
+                 (loop m (+ i 1))))]
+     [(> i 0)
+      (define ti (vector-ref t (- i 1)))
+      (loop (- (+ m i) ti) ti)]
+     [else
+      (advance!)
+      (loop (+ m 1) i)])))
+
+;; String String -> (Option Index)
+(define (search-string needle haystack)
+  (define t (table needle))
+  (let loop ((m 0) (i 0))
+    (cond
+     [(= (+ m i) (string-length haystack))
+      #f]
+     [(equal? (string-ref needle i) (string-ref haystack (+ m i)))
+      (if (= i (- (string-length needle) 1))
+          m
+          (loop m (+ i 1)))]
+     [(> i 0)
+      (define ti (vector-ref t (- i 1)))
+      (loop (- (+ m i) ti) ti)]
+     [else
+      (loop (+ m 1) i)])))
+
+;; String Rope -> (Option Index)
+(define (search-rope needle haystack #:forward? [forward? #t])
+  (if forward?
+      (search-generator needle (rope-generator haystack))
+      (let ((reversed-result (search-generator (list->string (reverse (string->list needle)))
+                                               (rope-generator haystack #:forward? #f))))
+        (and reversed-result (- (rope-size haystack) reversed-result (string-length needle))))))
+
+(module+ test
+  (require rackunit)
+  (check-equal? (table "ABCDABD")
+                (vector 0 0 0 0 1 2))
+  (check-equal? (table "PARTICIPATE IN PARACHUTE")
+                (vector 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0))
+  (check-equal? (search-string "ABCDABD" "ABC ABCDAB ABCDABCDABDE") 15)
+  (check-equal? (search-string "AAAA" "AAABAAABAAABAAABAAAB") #f)
+
+  (check-equal? (search-generator "ABCDABD" (sequence->generator "ABC ABCDAB ABCDABCDABDE")) 15)
+  (check-equal? (search-generator "AAAA" (sequence->generator "AAABAAABAAABAAABAAAB")) #f)
+
+  (define prejudice-rope
+    (rope-concat
+     (map string->rope
+          (list "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.\n"
+                "\n"
+                "However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.\n"
+                "\n"
+                "``My dear Mr. Bennet,'' said his lady to him one day, ``have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?''\n"
+                "\n"
+                "Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.\n"))))
+
+  (check-equal? (search-rope "man" prejudice-rope) 54)
+  (check-equal? (search-rope "man" prejudice-rope #:forward? #f) 171)
+  (check-equal? (search-rope "man in" prejudice-rope) 54)
+  (check-equal? (search-rope "man may" prejudice-rope) 171)
+  (check-equal? (search-rope "man may" prejudice-rope #:forward? #f) 171)
+  (check-equal? (search-rope "xylophone" prejudice-rope) #f)
+  (check-equal? (search-rope "xylophone" prejudice-rope #:forward? #f) #f))
diff --git a/ansi/rope.rkt b/ansi/rope.rkt
index 7fc6104..901c470 100644
--- a/ansi/rope.rkt
+++ b/ansi/rope.rkt
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
          rope-concat
          subrope*
          subrope
+         rope-generator
 
          has-mark?
          find-next-mark
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@
 
 (require racket/set)
 (require racket/match)
+(require racket/generator)
 
 (module+ test (require rackunit racket/pretty))
 
@@ -365,6 +367,27 @@
   (define-values (_l m _r) (subrope* r0 lo0 hi0))
   m)
 
+(define (rope-generator r #:forward? [forward? #t])
+  (if forward?
+      (generator ()
+        (let outer ((r r))
+          (and r
+               (begin (outer (rope-left r))
+                      (match-let (((strand text offset count) (rope-strand r)))
+                        (do ((i 0 (+ i 1)))
+                            ((= i count))
+                          (yield (string-ref text (+ offset i)))))
+                      (outer (rope-right r))))))
+      (generator ()
+        (let outer ((r r))
+          (and r
+               (begin (outer (rope-right r))
+                      (match-let (((strand text offset count) (rope-strand r)))
+                        (do ((i (- count 1) (- i 1)))
+                            ((negative? i))
+                          (yield (string-ref text (+ offset i)))))
+                      (outer (rope-left r))))))))
+
 ;; (require racket/trace)
 ;; (trace splay-to find-position rope-concat rope-append rope-split rope->string)