( For anyone else experiencing this issue, the current solution is to setg:tagbar_ctags_bin to your preferred ctags binary. Kudos to the developer for documenting this! )

I use tagbar at work, so I don't have direct control over which programs are installed outside my home folder. My PATH points to~/my/exuberant/ctags, but tagbar uses/usr/local/bin/ctags anyways. This is a problem because that ctags isn't Exuberant ctags, which causes an error.

I think the default behavior should be to use the first ctags executable that appears in my path, because I've already told the system that's the ctags I want to use.

I experience this behavior on Ubuntu 14, but it doesn't seem like an os-specific issue.