在VI里面设置tab宽度以及tab和空格（space）的转化

:set tabstop=4 " Force tabs to be displayed/expanded to 4 spaces (instead of default 8). 

set softtabstop=4 " Make Vim treat <Tab> key as 4 spaces, but respect hard Tabs. 

: " I don't think this one will do what you want. 

:set expandtab " Turn Tab keypresses into spaces. 

Sounds like this is happening to you.
" You can still insert real Tabs as [Ctrl]-V [Tab]. 

:set noexpandtab " Leave Tab keys as real tabs (ASCII 9 character). 

:1,$retab! " Convert all tabs to space or ASCII-9 (per "expandtab"),
" on lines 1_to_end-of-file. 

:set shiftwidth=4 " When auto-indenting, indent by this much.
" (Use spaces/tabs per "expandtab".) 

:help tabstop " Find out more about this stuff. 

:help vimrc " Find out more about .vimrc/_vimrc :-)