diff --git a/src/harness/fourslash.ts b/src/harness/fourslash.ts
index c022d4a95b9..d8b7c358a55 100644
--- a/src/harness/fourslash.ts
+++ b/src/harness/fourslash.ts
@@ -1481,20 +1481,7 @@ module FourSlash {
         }
 
         public copyFormatOptions(): ts.FormatCodeOptions {
-            return {
-                ConvertTabsToSpaces: this.formatCodeOptions.ConvertTabsToSpaces,
-                IndentSize: this.formatCodeOptions.IndentSize,
-                InsertSpaceAfterCommaDelimiter: this.formatCodeOptions.InsertSpaceAfterCommaDelimiter,
-                InsertSpaceAfterFunctionKeywordForAnonymousFunctions: this.formatCodeOptions.InsertSpaceAfterFunctionKeywordForAnonymousFunctions,
-                InsertSpaceAfterKeywordsInControlFlowStatements: this.formatCodeOptions.InsertSpaceAfterKeywordsInControlFlowStatements,
-                InsertSpaceAfterOpeningAndBeforeClosingNonemptyParenthesis: this.formatCodeOptions.InsertSpaceAfterOpeningAndBeforeClosingNonemptyParenthesis,
-                InsertSpaceAfterSemicolonInForStatements: this.formatCodeOptions.InsertSpaceAfterSemicolonInForStatements,
-                InsertSpaceBeforeAndAfterBinaryOperators: this.formatCodeOptions.InsertSpaceBeforeAndAfterBinaryOperators,
-                NewLineCharacter: this.formatCodeOptions.NewLineCharacter,
-                PlaceOpenBraceOnNewLineForControlBlocks: this.formatCodeOptions.PlaceOpenBraceOnNewLineForControlBlocks,
-                PlaceOpenBraceOnNewLineForFunctions: this.formatCodeOptions.PlaceOpenBraceOnNewLineForFunctions,
-                TabSize: this.formatCodeOptions.TabSize
-            }
+            return ts.clone(this.formatCodeOptions);
         }
 
         public setFormatOptions(formatCodeOptions: ts.FormatCodeOptions): ts.FormatCodeOptions {
diff --git a/src/services/formatting/smartIndenter.ts b/src/services/formatting/smartIndenter.ts
index 89bf9e674ee..593e6163e29 100644
--- a/src/services/formatting/smartIndenter.ts
+++ b/src/services/formatting/smartIndenter.ts
@@ -306,6 +306,13 @@ module ts.formatting {
             return findFirstNonWhitespaceColumn(lineStart, lineStart + lineAndCharacter.character, sourceFile, options);
         }
 
+        /*
+            Character is the actual index of the character since the beginning of the line.
+            Column - position of the character after expanding tabs to spaces
+            "0\t2$"
+            value of 'character' for '$' is 3
+            value of 'column' for '$' is 6 (assuming that tab size is 4)
+        */
         export function findFirstNonWhitespaceCharacterAndColumn(startPos: number, endPos: number, sourceFile: SourceFile, options: EditorOptions) {
             var character = 0;
             var column = 0;