Another option might be to install l3afpad if you happen to have an exceptionally good memory for file locations;
it doesn’t have any recent files functionality at all. 
Seriously, though, Sublime-Text is awesome.
However, for something lighter, simpler, and kinder to the wallet, you might also try Notepadqq; available from Official repos. And, yes, it has recent files capability, but I don’t know how many it lists:
sudo pacman -S notepadqq
Cheers.