Today I was cleaning up a test with an extra empty line at the top of the file, away from my Vim cursor. I wanted to delete it... without moving the cursor.
It seems like Vim almost lets you do this, with :[range]d. But it leaves the cursor on the deleted line, which isn't very magical.
This is the hack we found:
:[range]d
Then:
''
'' returns the cursor to the last jump point.
h/t Josh Branchaud