Emulating iedit-mode

[nordlow]

I'm looking for a way to emulate behaviour of iedit-mode typically bound as

(global-set-key (kbd "C-;") 'iedit-mode)

to directly start editing the current symbol at point. In essence, iedit-mode enters a mode where the symbol at point and all its references in the current buffer becomes directly editable. Pressing the key Enter or C-g completes the editing.

This because iedit is often too sluggish for my use cases with when number of symbol references reaches a certain threshold, typically around 50.