I absolutely support your request. The change made for the log list is very helpful for me but as you say other lists as ship/unit, construction, colony lists are getting very large too in late games and the same feature as for the log list would be useful there too.
I agree minipol; this is a very good idea. Scrolling through the list of ships is really not much fun. Is there going to be another patch, I wonder? If so, I hope your suggestion is taken!
I think the problem with the other lists besides the log is that they can change during the turn as orders, cargo, etc are changed. Maybe this is why they always reset???
But then again, the log can change in turn based games too...