A lot of IDEs now have a feature where if you select text and then type a 'wrapping' character (quotes, parens, braces, etc), instead of replacing the selected text it'll wrap the selected text in that character.
It's a minor thing, but being able to more-quickly quote-wrap parts of a query would be nice - and I don't know about other people, but as a programmer it's my first instinct for adding quotes to something, and it's a little jarring to not have that.