Subject: Re: bug#29036: 26.0.90; Feature Request: make "emacsclient +linenum file" rencenter line

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 13:18:54 +0200

> From: Xiaolong Zhang <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 18:57:36 +0800
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> If the file is already visited in Emacs, it won't recenter. Is it possible to make
> Emacs recenter even if it's already visited?

You can only do that by customizing the scrolling behavior in
general.  There's no special behavior for visiting a file that is
already in Emacs.