diff --git a/src/frontends/lean/builtin_cmds.cpp b/src/frontends/lean/builtin_cmds.cpp
index 32d9da42a6..4c01e6559b 100644
--- a/src/frontends/lean/builtin_cmds.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/lean/builtin_cmds.cpp
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ environment check_cmd(parser & p, ast_id & cmd_id) {
         // do not show useless type-checking results such as ?? : ?M_1
         return p.env();
     }
-    auto out              = p.mk_message(data.m_start, p.pos(), INFORMATION);
+    auto out              = p.mk_message(data.m_start, p.end_pos(), INFORMATION);
     formatter fmt         = out.get_formatter();
     unsigned indent       = get_pp_indent(p.get_options());
     format e_fmt    = fmt(e);
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ environment reduce_cmd(parser & p, ast_id & cmd_id) {
         bool eta = false;
         r = normalize(ctx, e, eta);
     }
-    auto out = p.mk_message(data.m_start, p.pos(), INFORMATION);
+    auto out = p.mk_message(data.m_start, p.end_pos(), INFORMATION);
     out.set_caption("reduce result") << r;
     out.report();
     return p.env();
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ static environment unify_cmd(parser & p, ast_id & cmd_id) {
     local_context   lctx;
     e1 = convert_metavars(mctx, e1);
     e2 = convert_metavars(mctx, e2);
-    auto rep = p.mk_message(data.m_start, p.pos(), INFORMATION);
+    auto rep = p.mk_message(data.m_start, p.end_pos(), INFORMATION);
     rep << e1 << " =?= " << e2 << "\n";
     type_context_old ctx(env, p.get_options(), mctx, lctx, transparency_mode::Semireducible);
     bool success = ctx.is_def_eq(e1, e2);
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ static environment eval_cmd(parser & p, ast_id & cmd_id) {
     name fn_name = "_main";
     auto new_env = compile_expr(p.env(), p.get_options(), fn_name, ls, type, e, pos);
 
-    auto out = p.mk_message(data.m_start, p.pos(), INFORMATION);
+    auto out = p.mk_message(data.m_start, p.end_pos(), INFORMATION);
     out.set_caption("eval result");
     scope_traces_as_messages scope_traces(p.get_stream_name(), data.m_start);
     bool should_report = false;
diff --git a/tests/lean/interactive/info_id_pre_elab.lean.expected.out b/tests/lean/interactive/info_id_pre_elab.lean.expected.out
index 42b40c01ff..de93e3cf51 100644
--- a/tests/lean/interactive/info_id_pre_elab.lean.expected.out
+++ b/tests/lean/interactive/info_id_pre_elab.lean.expected.out
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {"msgs":[{"caption":"","file_name":"info_id_pre_elab.lean","pos_col":0,"pos_line":6,"severity":"error","text":"invalid expression, `)` expected"}],"response":"all_messages"}
 {"msgs":[{"caption":"","file_name":"info_id_pre_elab.lean","pos_col":0,"pos_line":6,"severity":"error","text":"invalid expression, `)` expected"},{"caption":"","file_name":"info_id_pre_elab.lean","pos_col":8,"pos_line":3,"severity":"error","text":"ambiguous overload, possible interpretations\n  trace\n  tactic.trace\nAdditional information:\ninfo_id_pre_elab.lean:3:8: context: switched to basic overload resolution where arguments are elaborated without any information about the expected type because expected type was not available"}],"response":"all_messages"}
 {"msgs":[{"caption":"","file_name":"info_id_pre_elab.lean","pos_col":0,"pos_line":6,"severity":"error","text":"invalid expression, `)` expected"},{"caption":"","file_name":"info_id_pre_elab.lean","pos_col":8,"pos_line":3,"severity":"error","text":"ambiguous overload, possible interpretations\n  trace\n  tactic.trace\nAdditional information:\ninfo_id_pre_elab.lean:3:8: context: switched to basic overload resolution where arguments are elaborated without any information about the expected type because expected type was not available"},{"caption":"","file_name":"info_id_pre_elab.lean","pos_col":27,"pos_line":7,"severity":"error","text":"invalid expression, `)` expected"}],"response":"all_messages"}
-{"msgs":[{"caption":"","file_name":"info_id_pre_elab.lean","pos_col":0,"pos_line":6,"severity":"error","text":"invalid expression, `)` expected"},{"caption":"","file_name":"info_id_pre_elab.lean","pos_col":8,"pos_line":3,"severity":"error","text":"ambiguous overload, possible interpretations\n  trace\n  tactic.trace\nAdditional information:\ninfo_id_pre_elab.lean:3:8: context: switched to basic overload resolution where arguments are elaborated without any information about the expected type because expected type was not available"},{"caption":"","file_name":"info_id_pre_elab.lean","pos_col":27,"pos_line":7,"severity":"error","text":"invalid expression, `)` expected"},{"caption":"check result","end_pos_col":27,"end_pos_line":7,"file_name":"info_id_pre_elab.lean","pos_col":0,"pos_line":6,"severity":"information","text":"λ (tac : tactic unit), (tac.abstract none) : tactic unit → tactic unit"}],"response":"all_messages"}
+{"msgs":[{"caption":"","file_name":"info_id_pre_elab.lean","pos_col":0,"pos_line":6,"severity":"error","text":"invalid expression, `)` expected"},{"caption":"","file_name":"info_id_pre_elab.lean","pos_col":8,"pos_line":3,"severity":"error","text":"ambiguous overload, possible interpretations\n  trace\n  tactic.trace\nAdditional information:\ninfo_id_pre_elab.lean:3:8: context: switched to basic overload resolution where arguments are elaborated without any information about the expected type because expected type was not available"},{"caption":"","file_name":"info_id_pre_elab.lean","pos_col":27,"pos_line":7,"severity":"error","text":"invalid expression, `)` expected"},{"caption":"check result","end_pos_col":16,"end_pos_line":6,"file_name":"info_id_pre_elab.lean","pos_col":0,"pos_line":6,"severity":"information","text":"λ (tac : tactic unit), (tac.abstract none) : tactic unit → tactic unit"}],"response":"all_messages"}
 {"message":"file invalidated","response":"ok","seq_num":0}
 {"record":{"state":"⊢ ?m_1"},"response":"ok","seq_num":4}
 {"record":{"full-id":"tactic.abstract","source":,"state":"⊢ tactic unit → tactic unit","type":"tactic unit → opt_param (option name) none → opt_param bool tt → tactic unit"},"response":"ok","seq_num":7}