From 2d2198c354a6fb137ac5fb5799a6fdd474792274 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TMaYaD <TMaYaD+github@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:38:08 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Return the jquery object for el when this.$ is called without
 argument

---
 backbone.js | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/backbone.js b/backbone.js
index ade9db6f..2c0774ab 100644
--- a/backbone.js
+++ b/backbone.js
@@ -913,7 +913,11 @@
   // This should be prefered to global lookups, if you're dealing with
   // a specific view.
   var selectorDelegate = function(selector) {
-    return $(selector, this.el);
+    if (typeof selector == 'undefined') {
+      return $(this.el);
+    } else {
+      return $(selector, this.el);
+    };
   };
 
   // Cached regex to split keys for `delegate`.