me vs. this?

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sez charles.hartman at conncoll.edu:
>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 . . .)?
   When you use "this card", there is one single obvious candidate for which 
card you're talking about, *regardless* of how many cards are in the stack. 
When you use "this field" or "this button", that one single obvious candidate 
would be... what?