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This is from compctl-examples in the Misc dir of zsh 3.1.4:
compctl -x 'N[-1,@]' -k hosts - 's[]' -u -qS '@' -- finger

It meets all of your requirements.

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RoboHak

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Sameer D'Costa wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone have a completion for the finger command? I need 
> 
> finger username@hostname
> "username" is the system list of users 
> "hostname" is my predefined list of various hosts
> 
> I also need to be able to execute the command with just
> finger username
> 
> Any help will be appreciated alot. I spent some time on the man pages and
> although I learnt alot of things this continues to elude me.
> 
> Thanks
> sameer
>