Select each matched pattern after creating cursors

[ngharrison]

When I create multiple cursors, it is most often to perform some commands on a section of text that is common in multiple places. When evil-mc makes its cursors, it drops any visual selection after they are made. This results in me selecting my text, making the cursors, and then re-selecting the text again to finally operate on it. The information is already in the pattern it used to match each occurrence, so how could I make it maintain visual selections after cursor creation?

If you know a quick fix for this, great! I am also willing to implement this myself, but I would need some direction with the internals of evil-mc. Some specific things I can think of now:

• How are visual selections created for all cursors?
• Would the selection need to be created after each cursor or could it be done in one go at the end?
• Are there any known obstacles to implementing this?

Some idea of the evil-mc-specific variables and functions that relate to this problem would be super helpful.