how can i intuitively move cursor in vim?(not by line)

Question

if some lines are too long, it will be forced to be newlined.

for example, normally a long line will looks like this

1 first line
2 this is the long          


        

Answer 1

This answer is derived from @mario-rossi 's answer (Kudo to him), with minor midification.

I use the normal UP and DOWN arrow key, rather than CTRL+up and CTRL+down. And somehow I need to remove one excess space in the INSERT mode mapping to avoid an off-by-one behavior.

Put the following into your ~/.vimrc:

" When a long line is wrapped, the "gk" and "gj" allow you to move up and down
" a visual line, while normal "k" and "j" move a physical line.
" The following settings map "gk" and "gj" to cursor  and .
map  gk
map  gj
" And the following lines enables same  and  behavior in INSERT mode
imap   i
imap   i