vi commandline, goto line and column

I have been mixing the use of emacs and vi (vim) for a long time. Each of them has its advantage. I parse error output from a compilation like process and get a line and column number but I can only use emacs to directly go to a line and column: emacs +15:25 myfile.xml with vi I only have the line number (according to the man page) vi +15 myfile.xml There is an option to go position cursor on a pattern (vi +/pattern myfile.xml) which i never got to work. But that would not help me as the pattern is not always the first occurrence in the file. How can I start vi so it goes to column 25 on line 15 of my file? Can I do something with -c option?