diff --git a/spec/tokenized-buffer-spec.coffee b/spec/tokenized-buffer-spec.coffee
index d21653a63..7dcaf4b94 100644
--- a/spec/tokenized-buffer-spec.coffee
+++ b/spec/tokenized-buffer-spec.coffee
@@ -344,6 +344,20 @@ describe "TokenizedBuffer", ->
 
         expect(tokenizedBuffer.lineForScreenRow(2).text).toBe "#{tabAsSpaces} buy()#{tabAsSpaces}while supply > demand"
 
+      it "aligns the hard tabs to the correct tab stop column", ->
+        buffer.setText """
+          1\t2
+          12\t3
+          123\t4
+        """
+
+        tokenizedBuffer.setTabLength(4)
+        fullyTokenize(tokenizedBuffer)
+
+        expect(tokenizedBuffer.lineForScreenRow(0).text).toBe "1   2"
+        expect(tokenizedBuffer.lineForScreenRow(1).text).toBe "12  3"
+        expect(tokenizedBuffer.lineForScreenRow(2).text).toBe "123 4"
+
   describe "when the buffer contains surrogate pairs", ->
     beforeEach ->
       waitsForPromise ->