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To summarize the useful bits from the other answer that made an incorrect assumption: The Enclose feature requires selecting the text that should be enclosed.

Also, In Wing Pro with the Editor > Auto-Editing > Apply (), [], {} to Selection preference enabled, you can just select and press ( or [ or { to enclose. Or, since Wing Pro auto-closes those by default typing ( following by [ would get you ([|]) where | is the caret. But the auto-editing suite of functionality is not present in Wing Personal.

To summarize the useful bits from the other answer that made an incorrect assumption: The Enclose feature requires selecting the text that should be enclosed.

Also, In Wing Pro with the Editor > Auto-Editing > Apply (), [], {} to Selection preference enabled, you can just select and press ( or [ or { to enclose. Or, since Wing Pro auto-closes those by default typing ( following by [ would get you ([|]) where | is the caret. But the auto-editing suite of functionality is not present in Wing Personal.