diff --git a/cider-interaction.el b/cider-interaction.el
index 5e54cdf7e..6b447ae67 100644
--- a/cider-interaction.el
+++ b/cider-interaction.el
@@ -752,6 +752,7 @@ The handler simply inserts the result value in BUFFER."
                                (lambda (_buffer value)
                                  (cider-repl-emit-interactive-output value))
                                (lambda (buffer err)
+                                 (cider-repl-emit-interactive-output err)
                                  (message "%s" err)
                                  (cider-highlight-compilation-errors
                                   buffer err))