Syntax highlighting, autotabbing in Eclipse?

Pardon, is there a way to make Eclipse do syntax highlighting and autoindentation a la Vi? I need to use Eclipse because I've got homework involving Java, and features beyond those of a basic text editor could come in handy, methinks.
(I know the options should be in some obvious location, but I've managed to miss them somehow... :? )

Er, it does that automatically from a default setup.
Are you saying that you have no highlighting at all?
How did you install Eclipse, via pacman or download it yourself from the website? I ask because a couple of years ago when Eclipse was starting to become popular, I downloaded the Eclipse platform, only to find that I got the base system, without any Java IDE features. You see, the language support is in the form of additional plugins. That's why Eclipse can in fact be a Java, Python or C++ IDE, etc, providing someone has written the plugings to make it so.
Nowadays, the default download (Eclipse SDK) is bundled with the Java dev stuff. For me, it has always worked fine, out of the box. No need to enable highlighting or indenting.

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I just tried using a proportional font in my editor, and now I'm seeing your runaway-caret problem. Specifically, the caret remains in sync with the text as long as no bold characters are encountered, but it gets noticeably farther out of whack with each bold character it passes. I suspect that, when you measured the charWidth, your FontMetrics object wasn't really based on a bold font, because bold versions of proportional fonts are larger. And of course, the model/view conversion methods assume that the same style of the same font is used throughout the document. I've never had to deal with that problem, since I've always used monospaced fonts by preference, and bold versions of monospaced fonts really are the same size as the non-bold versions. I suggest you do the same, because getting this to work with proportional fonts look like a major hassle.

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