Both of them are still in the code only because Migrate needs them to restore .live/.die methods.

@dmethvin, what do you think?

I haven't thought about it lately, but when I was doing this earlier I couldn't figure out a simple way to expose it for Migrate. We could move it to another property like _context I suppose, just to be sure it was not inadvertently used?

I'd rather have Migrate duckpunch .init/.find/etc. than carry around cruft in the mainline just to support it.

Hmmm, since we already mess with .init that might just work. We could poke the selector property in there.

Ref jquery/jquery-migrate#79

How can we get the original selector string that was used to invoke a plugin from within the plugin? Example:

(function($) {
  $.fn.plugin = function() {
    // This no longer works in jQuery 3.x
    console.log(this.selector);
    return this;
  };
}(jQuery));

I would like this.selector to return "#some-div" when $('#some-div').plugin() is called.

A closed ticket isn't the right place to look for support, but in general there is no string that represents the collection a plugin receives, e.g. $(this).plugin() or $("p").children("span").plugin().