documentcloud/backbone — pull request #1744 by oz (2012-10-16 19:11:06+00:00)
Title: Add selector context to View.$

jQuery'`$` accepts a [selector context](http://api.jquery.com/jquery/#selector-context) (implemented internally with [$.find](http://api.jquery.com/find/)).

This tiny patch makes Backbone's `View.$` behave similarly (one surprise less), and does not increase the number of failed tests on the Ender and Zepto suites, so I think it's innocent enough.

Anyway, HTH. :)