When working with Auto-Smoothing set to something other than level 0, the vertex cage sometimes disapears behing the surface. It would be a great time saver to be able to turn off auto-smoothing to allow selection of the points that need to be dragged. And it would be even cooler if turning on/off auto-smoothing would not unselect the points selected

In version 6.6 (Beta 3+) I have made it so you can switch between rendering modes (Smooth<->Flat<->Wireframe) without losing your active selection. This allows you to switch to wireframe to grab points that are below the surface.

Not exactly what you requested, but I think it does the job.

Richard

I think this would be a very good idea if you could have a quick way of turning the autosmooth on/off (or maybe using the + and - to step up and down the autosmooth settings (hint, hint ))
Another usefull idea would be to be able to turn off/on the control cage , imho.