separate searches in windows in VIM

Question

When I split VIM to show me a few files or a different parts of the same file, is there any way for me to have one search in one window and a different search in another one? For instance, I'd like the upper window to have the search pattern foo and the lower window to have the search pattern bar.

The active search pattern affects what is highlighted when using search highlighting, and it is pretty annoying when I have foo highlighted in the upper window, and then I switch to the lower window and search for bar, and foo stops being highlighted in the upper window.

Edit: This question seems to be related, though I'm not sure it's an exact duplicate.

Answer 1

I use this script for highlighting multiple search patterns.