me vs. this?

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 11:20 AM -0400 8/5/2005, Charles Hartman wrote:
>Well, I don't know. Now that it's pointed out to me, I see in the 
>Doc under 'this' only mentions of 'this card' and 'this stack' . . . 
>It seems a little counterintuitive, though, doesn't it? to have an 
>apparent "plain English" command with what feels like an arbitrary 
>limitation on its reference? Why shouldn't "this X" refer to 
>whichever X is the "current" one of its kind (group, button, script 
>. . .)?

Well, the current stack is the one that's open and frontmost, and the 
current card is the one that's visible. But there's not really an 
analog for a group, button, etc., because you can have more than one 
of those available in the current context - you might have several 
groups on the current card, for instance, and no one of them is 
"current" in the same way.
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