I'd like to LOTS of enhancements to text editing capabilities of the Intellishell editor, for example block style cut/copy/paste. However, if you don't want to undertake that development 2 additional features would make much easier to use an alternate editor.

Feature 1: Hit a function key to open the contents of the current Intellishell editor into another text editor. The text editor could be defined under "Edit->preferences".

Feature 2: Have the Intellishell editor alert the user when the file in the editor has changed on disk by another application and prompt the user if they want to reload from disk.

Toad does both of things and it allows me easily switch to UltraEdit for the text editing capabilities that it has that Toad doesn't and then switch back to Toad.