Wrapping selecting text in enclosing characters in Emacs

Question

In Textmate I can wrap enclosing characters (\'(\', \'[\', \'\"\', etc.) around text by selecting it and hitting the opening character. For example, if I select word<

Answer 1

I'd take a look also at skeleton-mode http://ggorjan.blogspot.com/2007/05/skeleton-pair-mode-in-emacs.html

It's very flexible expecially for parentheses.