How can I tell AUCTeX to turn off math mode for the argument of shortintertext?

Question

I would like to have AUCTeX turn off math mode for the argument of the shortintertext command from the mathtools package. I customized the variable texmathp-tex-command to add the following line to my init.el file:

'(texmathp-tex-commands (quote (("shortintertext" arg-off))))

However when I enter a dollar in the argument of shortintertext I get the following message in the minibuffer:

Math mode started with `align` cannot be closed with dollar

which indicates that the argument is still in math mode.

I am using Emacs 24.3 with package install of auctex.

Answer 1

if auctex has a definition for \intertext, then \shortintertext should be treated the same way.