I have used VM in Emacs to read my email for more than a quarter century. I run the Emacs session remotely, and open inline URLs locally on the Macbook I `mosh`

I have used VM in Emacs to read my email for more than a quarter century. I run the Emacs session remotely, and open inline URLs locally on the Macbook I `mosh` out of. The remote machine connects to the local one and passes on the URL with `open`. Sometimes I need the URL itself, as opposed to actually opening it. I wrote elisp to modify the command that displays the URL the cursor is over within Emacs to also use the above method, but use `pbcopy` to pass the URL onto the Mac clipboard.