Macros - Ability Reference - adding a "this" reference

When creating characters and adding abilities it is not unheard of wanting to reference abilities in the same character. Wouldn't it be nice if, instead of doing this:

%{Bugbear|attack} // example borrowed from https://wiki.roll20.net/Macros#Nesting_Abilities

... you could do something like this:

%{this|attack}

...?

Then if you have a lot of characters that need the same functionality, you can just duplicate them and it will work as is. Right now I would have to go through each duplicate and retype the target character in my abilities. Also if for some reason the character changes its name during play it would break the abilities, whereas "this" would just resolve to the current correct name.

Or just be like attributes and allow you to omit the character name entirely from within attributes/abilities.

Isn't this basically what "selected" does

Selected requires having a token selected. As far as I can understand, Steven is talking about nesting abilities, and you don't necessarily want to have an ability that requires selecting your token in order to work.

Yes, Brian is on the money. It would indeed be nice being able to omit the character reference entirely if you are targeting the same character from which you a referencing.

This would be great, particularly for macros in character sheets. It's a bit frustrating when you want to do a perception check in a scene where you don't have a token on the page, such as if you're in overland movement and have a "whole party" token.