From f787c66bea719f1a567a2a30bbbb4b5f3f284a21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 22:52:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (move-to-tab-stop): Get rid of spaces before tabs that were
 made by an immediately previous use of this command.

---
 lisp/indent.el | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/indent.el b/lisp/indent.el
index 17e58241fd1..2713be3b51f 100644
--- a/lisp/indent.el
+++ b/lisp/indent.el
@@ -253,7 +253,12 @@ Use \\[edit-tab-stops] to edit them interactively."
     (while (and tabs (>= (current-column) (car tabs)))
       (setq tabs (cdr tabs)))
     (if tabs
-	(move-to-column (car tabs) t))))
+	(progn
+	  (if (eq last-command 'move-to-tab-stop)
+	      (let ((opoint (point)))
+		(skip-chars-backward " \t")
+		(delete-region (point) opoint)))
+	  (move-to-column (car tabs) t)))))
 
 (define-key global-map "\t" 'indent-for-tab-command)
 (define-key esc-map "\034" 'indent-region)
-- 
2.39.5