From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 00:16:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (tabify): Don't delete back before initial START.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-19.34~10136
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2d8e81a591552ec3b66b35f08b29f9d3f1d1866c;p=emacs.git

(tabify): Don't delete back before initial START.
---

diff --git a/lisp/tabify.el b/lisp/tabify.el
index ac2004dccda..16e65bddcde 100644
--- a/lisp/tabify.el
+++ b/lisp/tabify.el
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ The variable `tab-width' controls the spacing of tab stops."
       (narrow-to-region (point-min) end)
       (goto-char start)
       (while (search-forward "\t" nil t)	; faster than re-search
-	(let ((start (point))
+	(let ((tab-beg (point))
 	      (column (current-column))
 	      (indent-tabs-mode nil))
-	  (skip-chars-backward "\t")
-	  (delete-region start (point))
+	  (skip-chars-backward "\t" start)
+	  (delete-region tab-beg (point))
 	  (indent-to column))))))
 
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