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  • Good question. The mode-line is always difficult to ask Emacs about. Here, C-h k is not so useful. Commented Jun 3, 2020 at 16:26
  • It may have gotten better: when doing C-h k and clicking on the buffer name in the mode-line, I get a *Help* screen with two key sequences described: one is the mouse-drag-mode-line from global-map as above; the other is mode-line-previous-buffer which also identifies the mode-line-buffer-identification-keymap as described in @lawlist's answer. I'm on GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.13, cairo version 1.16.0). Commented Jun 3, 2020 at 16:47