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Just type that in your terminal to disable the default "open document" prompt window on macOS when you launch TextEdit or Writer, and to get a blank new document instead.
defaults write -g NSShowAppCentricOpenPanelInsteadOfUntitledFile -bool false
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GerZah commented Oct 11, 2019

Also works for Preview.app – which obviously doesn't start with an empty PDF or whatever, but at least it doesn't annoy with a "open document" dialog.

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That's true. Thanks for the reminder @GerZah! :)

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