This solution just sets the background of the current line to light blue. Add these lines to your gvimrc: " define a highlight colour group for bookmarks hi default BookmarkCol ctermfg=blue ctermbg=lightblue cterm=bold guifg=DarkBlue guibg=#d0d0ff gui=bold " define a bookmark / sign: just highlight the line sign define MyBookmark linehl=BookmarkCol " add something to the context menue (right mouse) amenu 1.200 PopUp.-SEP3- : amenu 1.200 PopUp.&mark.set\ bookmark :exe 'sign place 1000 name=MyBookmark line='.line(".").' buffer='.winbufnr(0) amenu 1.200 PopUp.&mark.del\ bookmarks :sign unplace 1000 amenu 1.200 PopUp.&mark.list\ bookmarks :sign list