Over at the Google G+ Emacs community Alison Chaiken points us to an interesting post by Akkana Peck. Many times, I’ve set a key sequence for some function—often the recommended key sequence—only to have some other module steal it out from under me. This happened twice with ace-jump-mode for instance.
Peck finally got tired of that and figured out how to set a global key binding once and for all. It involves creating a minor mode and setting some alists. Head on over to Peck’s site for the details. If this sort of thing has been bothering you, take a look at Peck’s post.
Meanwhile, back at the Emacs Community, Detlev Zundel comments on Chaiken’s post pointing us toward another, more general, solution by John Wiegley. It’s also worth looking at if you have this problem.