diff --git a/lisp/indent.el b/lisp/indent.el
index 0f6c68d..675b6b8 100644
--- a/lisp/indent.el
+++ b/lisp/indent.el
@@ -566,9 +566,9 @@ indent-relative-maybe
 
 See also `indent-relative'."
   (interactive)
-  (indent-relative t))
+  (indent-relative nil t))
 
-(defun indent-relative (&optional unindented-ok)
+(defun indent-relative (&optional first-only unindented-ok)
   "Space out to under next indent point in previous nonblank line.
 An indent point is a non-whitespace character following whitespace.
 The following line shows the indentation points in this line.
@@ -594,17 +594,18 @@ indent-relative
 	    (if (> (current-column) start-column)
 		(backward-char 1))
 	    (or (looking-at "[ \t]")
-		unindented-ok
+		first-only
 		(skip-chars-forward "^ \t" end))
 	    (skip-chars-forward " \t" end)
 	    (or (= (point) end) (setq indent (current-column))))))
-    (if indent
-	(let ((opoint (point-marker)))
-	  (indent-to indent 0)
-	  (if (> opoint (point))
-	      (goto-char opoint))
-	  (move-marker opoint nil))
-      (tab-to-tab-stop))))
+    (cond (indent
+           (let ((opoint (point-marker)))
+             (indent-to indent 0)
+             (if (> opoint (point))
+                 (goto-char opoint))
+             (move-marker opoint nil)))
+          (unindented-ok nil)
+          (t (tab-to-tab-stop)))))
 
 (defcustom tab-stop-list nil
   "List of tab stop positions used by `tab-to-tab-stop'.