How do I get TextMate style quotes in Emacs?

Question

In textmate, when there's a current selection, I hit the " key and the selection gets surrounded by quotes. The same thing happens with other balanced characters like (, {, [ and '.

Am I missing something obvious in Emacs configuration that would enable similar behaviour when using transient mark mode, or do I need to break out elisp and write something?

Answer 1

Try http://autopair.googlecode.com

Answer 2

wrap-region.el from this guy's blog post will do what you're looking for.

Paredit will complete the TextMate-style quoting. When you type one part of a matched pair (quotes, brackets, parentheses, etc), the second will be inserted and the insertion point is moved between them, much like TextMate.

Answer 3

You should check out these older, very similar, questions:

Automatically closing braces in Emacs?

Emacs typeover skeleton-pair-insert-maybe

Although the correct answer is Joao's above; I'm about to go and change my answer to those questions, to point to autopair.