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+const os = require('os');
+const path = require('path');
+const { app, shell, dialog } = require('electron');
+const appName = app.getName();
+
+// based on and inspired by
+// https://github.com/sindresorhus/anatine/blob/master/menu.js
+
+
+module.exports = function createMenu ({ createWindow }) {
+  return [
+    {
+      label: 'Application',
+      submenu: [
+        {
+          role: 'about'
+        },
+        {
+          type: 'separator'
+        },
+        {
+          role: 'services',
+          submenu: []
+        },
+        {
+          type: 'separator'
+        },
+        {
+          role: 'hide'
+        },
+        {
+          role: 'hideothers'
+        },
+        {
+          role: 'unhide'
+        },
+        {
+          type: 'separator'
+        },
+        {
+          role: 'quit'
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      label: 'Shell',
+      submenu: [
+        {
+          label: 'New Window',
+          accelerator: 'CmdOrCtrl+N',
+          click (item, focusedWindow) {
+            createWindow();
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'New Tab',
+          accelerator: 'CmdOrCtrl+T',
+          click (item, focusedWindow) {
+            if (focusedWindow) {
+              focusedWindow.rpc.emit('new tab');
+            } else {
+              createWindow();
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Close',
+          accelerator: 'CmdOrCtrl+W',
+          click (item, focusedWindow) {
+            if (focusedWindow) {
+              focusedWindow.rpc.emit('close tab');
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      label: 'Edit',
+      submenu: [
+        { label: 'Copy', accelerator: 'CmdOrCtrl+C', selector: 'copy:' },
+        { label: 'Paste', accelerator: 'CmdOrCtrl+V', selector: 'paste:' },
+        { label: 'Select All', accelerator: 'CmdOrCtrl+A', selector: 'selectAll:' },
+        { type: 'separator' },
+        {
+          label: 'Clear',
+          accelerator: 'CmdOrCtrl+K',
+          click (item, focusedWindow) {
+            if (focusedWindow) {
+              focusedWindow.rpc.emit('clear');
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      label: 'View',
+      submenu: [
+        {
+          label: 'Reload',
+          accelerator: 'CmdOrCtrl+R',
+          click (item, focusedWindow) {
+            if (focusedWindow) focusedWindow.reload();
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Toggle Developer Tools',
+          accelerator: process.platform === 'darwin' ? 'Alt+Command+I' : 'Ctrl+Shift+I',
+          click (item, focusedWindow) {
+            if (focusedWindow) {
+              focusedWindow.webContents.toggleDevTools();
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          type: 'separator'
+        },
+        {
+          role: 'togglefullscreen'
+        },
+        {
+          type: 'separator'
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Actual Size',
+          accelerator: 'CmdOrCtrl+0',
+          click (item, focusedWindow) {
+            if (focusedWindow) {
+              focusedWindow.rpc.emit('reset font size');
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Zoom In',
+          accelerator: 'CmdOrCtrl+plus',
+          click (item, focusedWindow) {
+            if (focusedWindow) {
+              focusedWindow.rpc.emit('increase font size');
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Zoom Out',
+          accelerator: 'CmdOrCtrl+-',
+          click (item, focusedWindow) {
+            if (focusedWindow) {
+              focusedWindow.rpc.emit('decrease font size');
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      label: 'Window',
+      submenu: [
+        {
+          label: 'Select Previous Tab',
+          accelerator: 'CmdOrCtrl+Left',
+          click (item, focusedWindow) {
+            if (focusedWindow) {
+              focusedWindow.rpc.emit('move left');
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Select Next Tab',
+          accelerator: 'CmdOrCtrl+Right',
+          click (item, focusedWindow) {
+            if (focusedWindow) {
+              focusedWindow.rpc.emit('move right');
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      role: 'help',
+      submenu: [
+        {
+          label: `${appName} Website`,
+          click () {
+            shell.openExternal('https://hyperterm.now.sh');
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Report an Issue...',
+          click () {
+            const body = `
+        <!-- Please succinctly describe your issue and steps to reproduce it. -->
+
+        -
+
+        ${app.getName()} ${app.getVersion()}
+        Electron ${process.versions.electron}
+        ${process.platform} ${process.arch} ${os.release()}`;
+
+            shell.openExternal(`https://github.com/zeit/hyperterm/issues/new?body=${encodeURIComponent(body)}`);
+          }
+        },
+        ...(
+          'darwin' !== process.platform
+            ? [
+                { type: 'separator' },
+              {
+                role: 'about',
+                click () {
+                  dialog.showMessageBox({
+                    title: `About ${appName}`,
+                    message: `${appName} ${app.getVersion()}`,
+                    detail: 'Created by Sindre Sorhus',
+                    icon: path.join(__dirname, 'static/Icon.png'),
+                    buttons: []
+                  });
+                }
+              }
+            ]
+            : []
+        )
+      ]
+    }
+  ];
+}