diff --git a/src-self-hosted/stage1.zig b/src-self-hosted/stage1.zig
index 3d2606c5ecf6fac2581b6ba38eb6f29abcbb3dd2..dd26e9594c9fe79fc1292e63a555cdd17b0edcab 100644
--- a/src-self-hosted/stage1.zig
+++ b/src-self-hosted/stage1.zig
@@ -375,28 +375,21 @@ fn printErrMsgToFile(
     const text = text_buf.toOwnedSlice();
 
     const stream = &file.outStream().stream;
-    if (!color_on) {
-        try stream.print(
-            "{}:{}:{}: error: {}\n",
-            path,
-            start_loc.line + 1,
-            start_loc.column + 1,
-            text,
-        );
-        return;
+    try stream.print( "{}:{}:{}: error: {}\n", path, start_loc.line + 1, start_loc.column + 1, text);
+
+    if (!color_on) return;
+
+    // Print \r and \t as one space each so that column counts line up
+    for (tree.source[start_loc.line_start..start_loc.line_end]) |byte| {
+        try stream.writeByte(switch (byte) {
+            '\r', '\t' => ' ',
+            else => byte,
+        });
     }
-
-    try stream.print(
-        "{}:{}:{}: error: {}\n{}\n",
-        path,
-        start_loc.line + 1,
-        start_loc.column + 1,
-        text,
-        tree.source[start_loc.line_start..start_loc.line_end],
-    );
+    try stream.writeByte('\n');
     try stream.writeByteNTimes(' ', start_loc.column);
     try stream.writeByteNTimes('~', last_token.end - first_token.start);
-    try stream.write("\n");
+    try stream.writeByte('\n');
 }
 
 export fn stage2_DepTokenizer_init(input: [*]const u8, len: usize) stage2_DepTokenizer {
diff --git a/std/zig/parser_test.zig b/std/zig/parser_test.zig
index f78e666779d8f71b310e18c4164b04d95011af99..a404eca62955c10741b6d0ce7b365987e4fa74fa 100644
--- a/std/zig/parser_test.zig
+++ b/std/zig/parser_test.zig
@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ test "zig fmt: change use to usingnamespace" {
     );
 }
 
+test "zig fmt: whitespace fixes" {
+    try testTransform("test \"\" {\r\n\tconst hi = x;\r\n}",
+        \\test "" {
+        \\    const hi = x;
+        \\}
+        \\
+    );
+}
+
 test "zig fmt: while else err prong with no block" {
     try testCanonical(
         \\test "" {
diff --git a/std/zig/tokenizer.zig b/std/zig/tokenizer.zig
index ef171c0674578083084a36a74c0f8f940b996356..fb4827da86f707a95e2b2ad18d110dd197b97d7e 100644
--- a/std/zig/tokenizer.zig
+++ b/std/zig/tokenizer.zig
@@ -301,10 +301,7 @@ pub const Tokenizer = struct {
             const c = self.buffer[self.index];
             switch (state) {
                 State.Start => switch (c) {
-                    ' ' => {
-                        result.start = self.index + 1;
-                    },
-                    '\n' => {
+                    ' ', '\n', '\t', '\r' => {
                         result.start = self.index + 1;
                     },
                     'c' => {