Actually, the problem is worse than just creating a new document when TextMate starts up. Once running, it is creating a new blank document *every time I switch to TextMate* (by clicking its icon in the Dock), if there is no other document already open.
Both of these are required for a well-behaved Mac application. [...] --> * Clicks the application icon in the Dock when no windows are open"
Well, what can I say. BBEdit doesn't do this, Word doesn't do this, FileMaker doesn't do this, Preview doesn't do this. TextMate does, and it's annoying.
It certainly makes sense for *some* applications to do this. iTunes. iCal. System Preferences. Probably a web browser (Safari and Firefox both do it).
But it also plainly *doesn't* make sense for *every* application to do this. And there are *lots* of examples of applications which do not. I'll bet I could come up with 50 just going through my /Applications folder. I'll bet I could come up with 5 other text editors for Mac OS X (BBEdit, by preference; skEdit, by default; SubEthaEdit, by preference -- just to start).
Anyway, FWIW, I find the current behavior irritating, and wish it would stop. Sometimes I just want to open something, not create something new. Having to close a blank document first is just annoying.
Michael