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

If you use smartparens just select the text and then type the pair. Smartparens wiki: Wrapping

Answer 2

I use http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit. M-( does exactly this.

Answer 3

There is textmate-mode.

From Emacswiki:

See textmate-mode for an attempt of having the TextMate behaviour for parenthesis and quotes (auto-closing, overwriting, smart delete).

http://code.google.com/p/emacs-textmate/

Answer 4

Autopair is the best one of these tools

Answer 5

You can have a look at wrap-region.

Answer 6

Since Emacs 24.1(released 2012-06).
Put this in your emacs init: (electric-pair-mode 1).
Now If you select a word and hit (, it will become (word). Same for ", [, { etc.