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1.1 root 1: #print
2: How would you look for a blank line? Do you
3: understand
4:
5: /^$/p
6:
7: Note this command: it looks for the beginning of the
8: line, followed immediately by the end of the line. If
9: there are any characters in between, it will keep
10: looking for a line with no__ characters at all. All right.
11: The file "text" contains an extraneous blank line.
12: Delete it and rewrite the file.
13: #create Ref
14: When the people of America reflect that they are now
15: called upon to decide a question, which in its consequences
16: must prove one of the most important that ever
17: engaged their attention, the propriety of their taking a
18: very comprehensive, as well as a very serious, view of it
19: will be evident.
20: Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity
21: of government; and it is equally undeniable that
22: whenever and however it is instituted, the people must
23: cede to it some of their natural rights, in order to vest it
24: with requisite powers. It is well worthy of consideration,
25: therefore, whether it would conduce more to the interest
26: of the people of America that they should, to all
27: general purposes, be one nation, under one federal government,
28: than that they should divide themselves into
29: separate confederacies and give to the head of each the
30: same kind of powers which they are advised to place in
31: one national government.
32: It has until lately been a received and uncontradicted
33: opinion that the prosperity of the people of America
34: depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes,
35: prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizens have
36: been constantly directed to that object. But politicians
37: now appear who insist that this opinion is erroneous,
38: and that instead of looking for safety and happiness in
39: union, we ought to seek it in a division of the States
40: into distinct confederacies or sovereignties. However
41: extraordinary this new doctrine may appear, it nevertheless
42: has its advocates; and certain characters who were
43: much opposed to it formerly are at present of the number.
44: Whatever may be the arguments or inducements
45: which have wrought this change in the sentiments and
46: declarations of these gentlemen, it certainly would not be
47: wise in the people at large to adopt these new political
48: tenets without being fully convinced that they are founded
49: in truth and sound policy.
50: #create text
51: When the people of America reflect that they are now
52: called upon to decide a question, which in its consequences
53: must prove one of the most important that ever
54: engaged their attention, the propriety of their taking a
55: very comprehensive, as well as a very serious, view of it
56: will be evident.
57: Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity
58: of government; and it is equally undeniable that
59: whenever and however it is instituted, the people must
60: cede to it some of their natural rights, in order to vest it
61: with requisite powers. It is well worthy of consideration,
62: therefore, whether it would conduce more to the interest
63: of the people of America that they should, to all
64: general purposes, be one nation, under one federal government,
65: than that they should divide themselves into
66: separate confederacies and give to the head of each the
67: same kind of powers which they are advised to place in
68: one national government.
69: It has until lately been a received and uncontradicted
70: opinion that the prosperity of the people of America
71: depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes,
72: prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizens have
73: been constantly directed to that object. But politicians
74: now appear who insist that this opinion is erroneous,
75: and that instead of looking for safety and happiness in
76: union, we ought to seek it in a division of the States
77: into distinct confederacies or sovereignties. However
78: extraordinary this new doctrine may appear, it nevertheless
79: has its advocates; and certain characters who were
80: much opposed to it formerly are at present of the number.
81: Whatever may be the arguments or inducements
82: which have wrought this change in the sentiments and
83: declarations of these gentlemen, it certainly would not be
84: wise in the people at large to adopt these new political
85:
86: tenets without being fully convinced that they are founded
87: in truth and sound policy.
88: #user
89: #cmp Ref text
90: #log
91: #next
92: 52.1a 10
93: 52.2a 5
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