Tagbar fails due to `gotag --version` invocation

[therealplato]

Tagbar+gotags used to work fine for me; not sure what I changed, but now when I hit my :TagbarToggle bind, I get this error:

Tagbar: Ctags doesn't seem to be Exuberant Ctags!
BSD ctags will NOT WORK. Please download Exuberant Ctags from ctags.sourceforge.net and install it in a directory in your $PATH or set g:tagbar_ctags_bin.
Executed command: "'gotags' --version"
Command output:
flag provided but not defined: -version
gotags version 1.4.1
Usage: gotags [options] file(s)
  -L string
...

My vim config includes:

let g:tagbar_type_go = {
    \ 'ctagstype' : 'go',
    \ 'kinds'     : [
        \ 'p:package',
        \ 'i:imports:1',
        \ 'c:constants',
        \ 'v:variables',
        \ 't:types',
        \ 'n:interfaces',
        \ 'w:fields',
        \ 'e:embedded',
        \ 'm:methods',
        \ 'r:constructor',
        \ 'f:functions'
    \ ],
    \ 'sro' : '.',
    \ 'kind2scope' : {
        \ 't' : 'ctype',
        \ 'n' : 'ntype'
    \ },
    \ 'scope2kind' : {
        \ 'ctype' : 't',
        \ 'ntype' : 'n'
    \ },
    \ 'ctagsbin'  : 'gotags',
    \ 'ctagsargs' : '-sort -silent'
\ }
let g:tagbar_autoclose = 1
let g:tagbar_ctags_bin = 'gotags'

[jstemmer]

I think this is caused by the last line in your config, you shouldn't need that as ctagsbin is already configured a few lines above it.

Can you remove the line that says let g:tagbar_ctags_bin = 'gotags' and try again?

[therealplato]

That worked, awesome! thanks @jstemmer