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

There's now Corral as well. Its "do what I mean" behavior makes this process a lot faster than manually selecting the text and hitting the key.

(disclaimer: I'm the author)