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+/*
+
+Copyright (C) 1993-2019 John W. Eaton
+Copyright (C) 2009-2010 VZLU Prague
+
+This file is part of Octave.
+
+Octave is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+*/
+
+#include "action-container.h"
+#include "cmd-edit.h"
+
+namespace octave
+{
+  void action_container::run (size_t num)
+  {
+    if (num > size ())
+      num = size ();
+
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < num; i++)
+      {
+        run_first ();
+
+        // If input_interrupted is TRUE, a user callback event has
+        // requested that we break out of the readline event handler to
+        // process a command or other action.
+
+        if (command_editor::input_interrupted ())
+          break;
+      }
+  }
+}