Comment #3 on issue 694 by damien.c...@gmail.com: Should be able to 'do it' in text presentations http://code.google.com/p/moose-technology/issues/detail?id=694
Ok, I changed the default to be 'nil' so that no binding is done on 'self'. I also changed the GTInspector so that 'self' is now bound to the currently inspected object instead of 'nil'.
The 'variableBindings' proposed by TextPresentation allows for binding anything but 'self' (and probably all the Smalltalk special variable but I haven't checked).