read-line pulls data from buffer, not console

I'm new to Clojure, so maybe it's my misunderstanding, but I'm using read-line to get user input for testing purposes, but it seems to be reading data from my source code panel, not from the REPL panel. Is this to be expected?

Do you mean that you are running the read-line function in the REPL and it is just reading characters from whatever file you have open?