Recent Files shortcut behavior

I use the Recent Files shortcut quite often in my IDE to quickly nagivate to open files in my IDE, recently I have changed my workflow to use two window groups at any given time (usually one for the controllers and another for views).

The problem I have using two windows, if the active window group doesn't have file open (but the other group does), when I invoke Recent Files and open the file, it will open a new tab in the current window instead of simply navigating to the open tab in the other window group (which is what I want).

Is there a way I can edit this behavior?