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I recently started using GNU Emacs 19.22 (I've been using 18.52 for a
long time) and was really surprised to find that incremental searches
are now terminated with a RET rather than ESC.

It is extremely useful to be able to include RET in a search string
and more convenient to type RET than C-j as RET is what you're used to
typing when you enter code.

Why did something as "basic" as this get changed so late in the game?
Can this be changed back to ESC with something in my .emacs file?

From the info page of Emacs 18.52

  When you are satisfied with the place you have reached, you can type
ESC, which stops searching, leaving the cursor where the search
brought it.  Also, any command not specially meaningful in searches stops
the searching and is then executed.  Thus, typing `C-a' would exit the
search and then move to the beginning of the line.  ESC is necessary
only if the next command you want to type is a printing character,
DEL, ESC, or another control character that is special within
searches (`C-q', `C-w', `C-r', `C-s' or `C-y').

From the info page of Emacs 19.22

   When you are satisfied with the place you have reached, you can type
RET, which stops searching, leaving the cursor where the search brought
it.  Also, any command not specially meaningful in searches stops the
searching and is then executed.  Thus, typing `C-a' would exit the
search and then move to the beginning of the line.  RET is necessary
only if the next command you want to type is a printing character, DEL,
RET, or another control character that is special within searches
(`C-q', `C-w', `C-r', `C-s', `C-y', `M-y', `M-r', or `M-s').

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