First off, apologies @Евгений-Фокин , I misread your question. I’ve come back to it now as I didn’t see you reply to my solution. @Claudia-Frank had upvoted my answer but also misread the question.

I can see now that in fact you were only wanting to remove the:
text autoid…</text> IF the line starting with <replacement> in that group of lines had Russian characters in it.

I have a revised regex which I think fits what you intended. I would suggest testing it by using in ‘Find’ mode first. You could have it bookmark all the instances that it thinks fit the criteria, then look at those before deciding to remove.
Find What: (?s)<text.+?<replacement><\!\[CDATA\[[\x{080}-\x{4af}].+?text>\R?
Replace with: empty field here

The part that checks for a Russian character is the \x{080}-\x{4af}, I hope I’ve got that sequence correct. It only checks the first character, hopefully no non-Cyrillic character at the start with Cyrillic afterwards.

I would like to hear back from you regardless of whether it helps or not. if it does NOT help, we on the forum are only too willing to offer up other possible solutions.

Terry

Like I said, I understand MUCH better what the regex is supposed to do and is doing. This is the regex I’m using:
(?i)^.?(<font.?|\sync.?correct|www.|.(?=Help other users)|please rate|Professional Translation|advertise your|== for|WWW.MY-SUBS.COM|SLY@Moon|subXpacio|www.opensubtitles.org|Open Subtitles MKV Player|Subtitles by|Synchr:AA|Support us and become VIP|to remove all ads|AmericasCardroom|.(?=Synced and corrected by BLuk)|Subrip by|million dollar).?\R

It works flawlessly. If I run this regex on a directory of files and some of the files have consecutive lines listed for removal in the regex, I’ll get a message at the end like “Replace in Files: 26 occurrences replaced”. If I run the regex until it says “Replace in Files: 0 occurrences replaced”, all of the lines (including the multiple consecutive lines) will have been replaced. Except - occasionally there will be multiple consecutive lines at the very end of the subtitle I’m editing. In those instances, the very last line won’t have been removed. I can solve that fairly simply by loading every subtitle into NP++ and just making sure that there’s a blank line (simply a CR/FL) for the last line. I’ve tried to create a regex to do just that, but they aren’t working. It’s not a huge deal - this is MUCH better and I’m very appreciative, but if what I’m looking for is a trivial thing and anyone has suggestions they’d be very welcome.

As always, thanks very much

@Tony-Moody,

You must not …

That’s not strictly true. “You must be careful if you …” would be the better way of phrasing that.

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml

And I can now identify that you’re on an older Windows, such as Win2k or WinXP. For more on the %AppData%, see our FAQ on the topic – which includes an explanation for how the simplest way to access folders in the user-app-data hierarchy is by %AppData%\FolderName, so you don’t have to know which file hierarchy your system uses.

What I do is record a macro and run it to check. If it needs altering I either record it again or I have a go at editing it. One can add macros together by editing.

Yep, those are good, solid advice.

Editing Configuration Files

As it says in NpWiki++: Configuration Files, “Because Notepad++ updates some of its configuration files on normal program termination, manual editing of a Notepad++ configuration file requires both specific procedures and good knowledge of the files’ layout. It is strongly advised to read about how to edit configuration files and the knowledge base for file layouts.”

The editing configuration files page claims you have to mark the files as read-only, but that’s not technically accurate, either.

Notepad++ will overwrite the shortcuts.xml file when it exits… but only if you’ve recorded a new Macro, or if you’ve used the Settings > Shortcut Mapper or Macro > Modify Shortcut / Delete Macro…. (There may be one or two other circumstances that I haven’t thought of, but if there are, they seem to be more rare.)

A sequence that has always worked for me, every time, for editing the shortcuts.xml from within Notepad++:

Close all active instances of Notepad++. This will make sure Notepad++ saves any changes it needs to save into shortcuts.xml. Open one instance of Notepad++. Do nothing else regarding Notepad++, other than what’s described in these steps, while following these instructions. Do not open another instance. Do not change GUI settings, especially the Shortcut Mapper… or Modify Shortcut / Delete Macro…. Open %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml using that one instance of Notepad++ if you’re in a portable installation, open the local shortcuts.xml instead Make your edits to shortcuts.xml using that one Notepad++, without opening any other instances. Save shortcuts.xml Close that one instance of Notepad++. When you open Notepad++ again, the changes you made should take effect if you handcrafted a new macro, or edited an existing one, it should be available in the Macro menu. You can also re-load shortcuts.xml to make sure the changes are still in place; they should be (they are for me). If shortcuts.xml is open, either Close shortcuts.xml again, so that you don’t expect it to be editable this time,
or if you do want to safely edit shortcuts.xml more, and haven’t done anything else with Notepad++, you’re effectively back at step #3 right now, and can continue the sequence from there