On 10/01/2012, at 05.33, Michael Johnston wrote:

Is there by any chance a user defaults setting to control the length of the recent searches / recent replaces lists in TM1?

There is not, sorry.

(I notice they are much longer, and scrollable, and zebra striped in TM2, which is a nice improvement)

Another nice thing is you can call up the search history w/o going via the Find window: ⌃⌥⌘F — I find that tremendously useful as well :)