diff --git a/src/libexpr/parser.y b/src/libexpr/parser.y
index 476403c4c..727ee94b4 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/parser.y
+++ b/src/libexpr/parser.y
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ using namespace nix;
 
 void yyerror(YYLTYPE * loc, yyscan_t scanner, ParserState * state, const char * error)
 {
+    if (std::string_view(error).starts_with("syntax error, unexpected end of file")) {
+        loc->first_column = loc->last_column;
+        loc->first_line = loc->last_line;
+    }
     throw ParseError({
         .msg = HintFmt(error),
         .pos = state->positions[state->at(*loc)]
diff --git a/tests/functional/lang/parse-fail-eof-in-string.err.exp b/tests/functional/lang/parse-fail-eof-in-string.err.exp
index b28d35950..17f34b62d 100644
--- a/tests/functional/lang/parse-fail-eof-in-string.err.exp
+++ b/tests/functional/lang/parse-fail-eof-in-string.err.exp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 error: syntax error, unexpected end of file, expecting '"'
-       at «stdin»:3:5:
+       at «stdin»:3:6:
             2| # Note that this file must not end with a newline.
             3| a 1"$
-             |     ^
+             |      ^
diff --git a/tests/functional/lang/parse-fail-eof-pos.err.exp b/tests/functional/lang/parse-fail-eof-pos.err.exp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ef9ca381c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/functional/lang/parse-fail-eof-pos.err.exp
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+error: syntax error, unexpected end of file
+       at «stdin»:3:1:
+            2| # no content
+            3|
+             | ^
diff --git a/tests/functional/lang/parse-fail-eof-pos.nix b/tests/functional/lang/parse-fail-eof-pos.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bd66a2c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/functional/lang/parse-fail-eof-pos.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+(
+# no content