Speedier elisp-refs-* with Dumb Grep

Helpful is a fantastic Emacs package that drastically improves the builtin help-mode . One of the particularly nice features is finding references to a particular symbol. Unfortunately it can be painfully slow in practice due to actually parsing every loaded Elisp file: Emacs Lisp ( require 'benchmark ) ( benchmark-elapse ( elisp-refs-function #'car )) 24.001221 Instead of walking the ASTs of…