On Feb 28, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Curt Sellmer wrote:
It would also be nice if there were a setting where when you close the last tab in a window, instead of the entire window closing, a new untitled document was used as a placeholder instead, just as when a folder is originally opened.
+1
In the meantime, you can use the File → Open Recent menu item to semi-quickly reopen the thing. (Or right-arrow into TextMate using Quicksilver.)