Application opens twice when file specified

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Typing open -a emacs opens one window. Fine.
Typing open -a emacs foo.txt opens two windows, one as above, and one with foo.txt in it.

Why is that and what should I do to fix it?

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You have to enclose the document you're trying to open in quotes

open -a emacs "/foo/bar/foobar.txt"

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