May 19, '10 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: barefootguru
It wasn't obvious to me until now, but the number of items shown in the Open Recent menus in AppleScript Editor, Preview, TextEdit (and probably other apps) is controlled by this setting. That is, changing the 'Number of recent items' for Documents in System Preferences doesn't just affect the Apple menu, it also affects some of Apple's apps. (Note that if you increase the limit, your apps won't show any recent Documents -- as you open new documents, the menu will populate to the new limit.)
There's a related hint on overriding this on a per-app basis.
[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. This setting affects a number of Cocoa applications; personally I consider this to be a bug. It should not be a global setting. I believe this behavior was introduced in 10.6, but I'd be interested to know if anyone sees it in 10.5.x as well.]
