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In ver 5 i added my external tool as a "DOS command", so that in the tool spec window, the Command was shown as cmd.exe in gray (not changeable). I added my Paramters as "perl -S blah blah...."

My regular expression is ^\([0-9]+\):\([0-9]+\):

I can still do that, and i can invoke the tool, and it ...

I'll try that. Thanks. Meanwhile, i attempted to delete the tool. In the tool list it appeared as the whole command string: "perl blah blah blah". When i highlighted it and hit my Delete key i got a Windows pop-up that Textpad failed and had to close.
I tried again, same result.
I renamed it to ...

I have a tool that outputs lines like:

0004:057: # Purpose: Tex.......
0023:034: blah blah......
...

where the first two tokens are line and col number. I specified it under configure/Tools with "Regular Expression to Match Output" like

^\([0-9]+\):\([0-9]+\):

and File: is blank, Line: is 1 and ...

In v. 5.4.2 on Win7 HomePremium:

I can see the shortcut (C-Q,y) turn the tick-box (under Configure/SynchScrolling) on and off, but i still don't see independent vertical scrolling, as i do in horizontal scrolling (and as i see in the Zeus editor).

I don't like to type much, so i have a tp.bat file on my path. The file contains one line:
start "TextPad" "C:\Program Files\TextPad 5\TextPad.exe" %*
so i can type:
tp <some files>

On another machine i AutoRun a profile.bat which contains doskey macros (like unix aliases). One of those is ...