Bingo!
Ahhh....
^.*\R?
(That's not a question. 
)
Or is it "0 or 1" questions? 
I'm happy to say I'm not nerdy enough to know what that means! 
Or is it “0 or more than 1” questions?
FWIW, here's a Haskell solution. It's particularly easy to read. The main bits are:
drop 2 . lines
which says exactly that:
drop the first 2 lines
Full Haskell script:
module Main where
main :: IO ()
main =
interact $ unlines . drop 2 . lines
Download Macro(s): Drop 2 lines.kmmacros (8.6 KB)
Macro-Notes
- Macros are always disabled when imported into the Keyboard Maestro Editor.
- The user must ensure the macro is enabled.
- The user must also ensure the macro's parent macro-group is enabled.
System Information
- macOS 13.1
- Keyboard Maestro v10.2
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If we're having fun -- shell version of "remove top lines":
REMOVE Top Line(s) -- shell.kmmacros (16.0 KB)
Does require Unix linefeeds, unless you add a conversion step.
Whereas the AppleScript version is line-ending agnostic (like @noisneil's regex) but forces linefeeds (in this version) in the output:
REMOVE Top Line(s) -- AS.kmmacros (16.2 KB)
Since everyone's having fun, this version replaces your whole subroutine Neil with 2 actions and a single explanatory comment. There's no looping and only a single search/replace action using a nifty regex. Hope you enjoy!
Download Macro(s): [SUB] REMOVE Top Line(s).kmmacros (8.6 KB)
Macro-Image
Macro-Notes
- Macros are always disabled when imported into the Keyboard Maestro Editor.
- The user must ensure the macro is enabled.
- The user must also ensure the macro's parent macro-group is enabled.
System Information
- macOS 10.14.6
- Keyboard Maestro v10.2
It's based on another subroutine of mine that you can find in the Macro Library category...
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Aside from the niftiness of that regex, I'm also taken by the table formatting in the comment action. Howjadudat?
I created the whole content of the comment in TextEdit and then just copy/pasted into the comment action. There must be a macro for that!
Ah ok, I was thinking it might be nice to use in a variable checker rather than this kind of thing:
Display Text action accepts the same RTF formatting too…
Yeah but how can you do it within KM? I copied from TextEdit and had a look at the XML but of course it's unreadable Data. Is there some special magic formatting code?
Instead of taking my guess - try searching the km forum for “rtf format” and be prepared for some research time!
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You beat me to it! While digesting rice pudding I realised you could avoid the loop similarly, so here's the "Regex Replace" version of the same, skipping the need for capture groups:
REMOVE Top Line(s) w Variable.kmmacros (16.0 KB)
@noisneil -- you can probably do similar in the other subs that take a variable line number.
Maybe pop a "Custom HTML Prompt" instead?
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I don't like to have favourites, but that's my favourite!
I'm having a go with it now, but a few things are giving me a headache; namely: no text wrapping, no dragging/resizing, it slows the macro down by a good 3 seconds and columnised text alignment goes out the window. I'm sure a lot of this is possible, but I don't think it's worth the faff. I think I'm good without the table formatting. 
Quick tweak needed. If I leave the Replace With field empty, the replaced lines will be blank, as opposed to gone. What am I missing?
REPLACE LINES Containing String.kmmacros (19 KB)
TEST Caller.kmmacros (20 KB)
The subroutine has a hardcoded \n in the replacement field…
I am thick sometimes!
as in encyclopaedia? (If you remember them )