Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Emacs 31 comes with the internal function
>> `completions--start-of-candidate-at' in simple.el, which returns the
>> position of the completion candidate at point in the completions buffer.
>> I propose to replace this function with a slightly improved version,
>> which returns the candidate string in addition to the candidate bounds.
>> It could be made part of the public API:
>
> Sounds fine to me.

Thanks. Patch attached.

Daniel