Similar to jQuery .closest() but traversing descendants?

Question

Is there a function similar to jQuery .closest() but for traversing descendants and returning only closest ones?

I know that there is

Answer 1

I cooked up this, no implementation for positional selectors (they need more than just matchesSelector) yet:

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/TL4Bq/3/

(function ($) {
    var matchesSelector = jQuery.find.matchesSelector;
    $.fn.closestDescendant = function (selector) {
        var queue, open, cur, ret = [];
        this.each(function () {
            queue = [this];
            open = [];
            while (queue.length) {
                cur = queue.shift();
                if (!cur || cur.nodeType !== 1) {
                    continue;
                }
                if (matchesSelector(cur, selector)) {
                    ret.push(cur);
                    return;
                }
                open.unshift.apply(open, $(cur).children().toArray());
                if (!queue.length) {
                    queue.unshift.apply(queue, open);
                    open = [];
                }
            }
        });
        ret = ret.length > 1 ? jQuery.unique(ret) : ret;
        return this.pushStack(ret, "closestDescendant", selector);
    };
})(jQuery);

There is probably some bugs though, didn't test it very much.