gvim: cursor control

I’m using gvim to edit MoinMoin wiki pages - it can be made to understand the syntax, which is considerably easier on the eyes.

Problem is getting the cursor to behave. If you have a line of text that is long enough to wrap lines in the editor, and want to move around in it, you have to hold ctrl and left/right arrow to scan along it - you can’t just hit the up or down arrows because it will jump past a carriage return to the next ‘actual’, rather than displayed, line.

Probably makes perfect sense if you’re writing C, but for what I’m doing it’s blinking irritating. Can it be overridden, and made to behave more like a conventional word processor, in .vimrc? (I have looked at instructions, but have found them… shall we say somewhat opaque. ;))