要为当前用户永久地定义此属性，请创建(或编辑).vimrc文件:

$ vim ~/.vimrc

然后，将下面的配置粘贴到文件中。重新启动vim后，将应用选项卡设置。

set tabstop=4       " The width of a TAB is set to 4.
                    " Still it is a \t. It is just that
                    " Vim will interpret it to be having
                    " a width of 4.

set shiftwidth=4    " Indents will have a width of 4

set softtabstop=4   " Sets the number of columns for a TAB

set expandtab       " Expand TABs to spaces

还有一件事，使用 : retab 将现有制表符转换为空格 http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Converting_tabs_to_spaces

添加一行 将ts = 4 在 ~ /。每个用户的Vimrc文件 或 /etc/vimrc文件用于整个系统

将您想要的设置放在~/。vimrc文件——请参阅下面的一些指导方针和最佳实践。

在Vim中使用标签有四种主要方式:

Always keep 'tabstop' at 8, set 'softtabstop' and 'shiftwidth' to 4 (or 3 or whatever you prefer) and use 'noexpandtab'. Then Vim will use a mix of tabs and spaces, but typing and will behave like a tab appears every 4 (or 3) characters. Note: Setting 'tabstop' to any other value than 8 can make your file appear wrong in many places (e.g., when printing it). Set 'tabstop' and 'shiftwidth' to whatever you prefer and use 'expandtab'. This way you will always insert spaces. The formatting will never be messed up when 'tabstop' is changed. Set 'tabstop' and 'shiftwidth' to whatever you prefer and use a |modeline| to set these values when editing the file again. Only works when using Vim to edit the file. Always set 'tabstop' and 'shiftwidth' to the same value, and 'noexpandtab'. This should then work (for initial indents only) for any tabstop setting that people use. It might be nice to have tabs after the first non-blank inserted as spaces if you do this though. Otherwise aligned comments will be wrong when 'tabstop' ischanged.

来源:

vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html #“制表符” :帮助制表符

我复制并粘贴到我的。vimrc文件:

" size of a hard tabstop
set tabstop=4

" always uses spaces instead of tab characters
set expandtab

" size of an "indent"
set shiftwidth=4

前两个设置意味着当我按Tab键时，我得到4个空格。 第三个设置意味着当我做V>(即视觉和缩进)时，我也得到了4个空格。

不像公认的答案那么全面，但它可能会帮助那些只想复制和粘贴一些东西的人。

或者vim modeline的简写:

vim :set ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 et :