Better token lists

Crossposted to usability gruop.

The three modes that I've seen people use are:

1. The one in sirkitree's screenshot in the original post.
2. Pathauto style: does it's own processing to get a list of tokens that will work for the current scope (e.g. nodes). Reduces the number of tokens somewhat, but not a ton.
3. Don't include this advice under the field, instead say "You can use tokens here like [foo], [bar], and [baz] or see the detailed help page for more details." Then put the full list in the help page. Ubercart does this in several places.

I've thought some nice additional styles though never implemented them (nor seen them implemented).

1. A jquery based filter mechanism at the top of that big list.
2. An autocomplete style mechanism that would be most useful for single line textboxes.

Anything else?

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Popunder?

I'm not sure what does it call. But the same as Greybox image module. Help dialog popup within the admin page.

Something like the jQuery Tag Suggestion plugin (http://remysharp.com/2007/12/28/jquery-tag-suggestion/) perhaps?

As for the long list of tokens, maybe we can follow the how Views allows you to Fields filter by categories.

Here's what I've decided upon.

First limit the scope. This cuts down on the amount of tokens as Greg suggests in #2 with the Pathauto style.
Then make each type a collapsible fieldset, resulting in the following:

Good to report back on what you actually chose to do. Thanks. Seems like a fair solution. Presenting long long, very long lists of stuff is a recurring UI problem and I think you picked the right option for this case.

Only issue with this is that the fieldset titles become very important because that is the only thing you get to base your initial choice on. You might consider dropping the repetitive 'tokens' from all nested fieldset titles, it's pretty clear we're administring tokens already, no need to keep saying it. Omit needless words.